tstringdescription">Format string description</h2><p>The format string is a character string which contains three types of
    objects:</p>
<ul>
<li>plain characters, which are simply matched with the characters of the
      input (with a special case for space and line feed, see <a href="Scanf.html#space"><i>The space character in format strings</i></a>),</li>
<li>conversion specifications, each of which causes reading and conversion of
      one argument for the function <code class="code">f</code> (see <