fscanf
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)
fscanf — Parses input from a file according to a format
Description
fscanf(resource $stream, string $format, mixed &...$vars): array|int|false|nullThe function fscanf() is similar to sscanf(), but it takes its input from a file associated with stream and interprets the input according to the specified format.
Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input stream. This means that even a tab (\t) in the format string can match a single space character in the input stream.
Each call to fscanf() reads one line from the file.
Parameters
stream-
A file system pointer resource that is typically created using fopen().
format-
The interpreted format for
string, which is described in the documentation for sprintf() with following differences:- Function is not locale-aware.
F,g,Gandbare not supported.Dstands for decimal number.istands for integer with base detection.nstands for number of characters processed so far.sstops reading at any whitespace character.*instead ofargnum$suppresses the assignment of this conversion specification.
vars-
The optional assigned values.
Return Values
If only two parameters were passed to this function, the values parsed will be returned as an array. Otherwise, if optional parameters are passed, the function will return the number of assigned values. The optional parameters must be passed by reference.
If there are more substrings expected in the format than there are available within string, null will be returned. On other errors, false will be returned.
Examples
Example #1 fscanf() Example
<?php
$handle = fopen("users.txt", "r");
while ($userinfo = fscanf($handle, "%s\t%s\t%s\n")) {
list ($name, $profession, $countrycode) = $userinfo;
//... do something with the values
}
fclose($handle);
?>Example #2 Contents of users.txt
javier argonaut pe
hiroshi sculptor jp
robert slacker us
luigi florist it© 1997–2023 The PHP Documentation Group
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https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.fscanf.php