fscanf

fscanf

Parses input from a file according to a format

 **fscanf** resource $stream string $format mixed $vars

The function is similar to , but it takes its input from a file associated with and interprets the input according to the specified . fscanf``sscanf``stream``format

Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input stream. This means that even a tab () in the format string can match a single space character in the input stream. \t

Each call to reads one line from the file. fscanf

stream``varsThe optional assigned 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 than there are available within , null will be returned. On other errors, false will be returned. format``string

Voorbeeld: 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);
?>

Voorbeeld: Contents of users.txt

javier  argonaut        pe
hiroshi sculptor        jp
robert  slacker us
luigi   florist it

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