i>the first argument is a source of characters for the input,</li>
<li>the second argument is a format string that specifies the values to
      read,</li>
<li>the third argument is a <em>receiver function</em> that is applied to the
      values read.</li>
</ul>
<p>Hence, a typical call to the formatted input function <a href="Scanf.html#VALbscanf"><code class="code"><span class="constructor">Scanf</span>.bscanf</code></a> is
    <code class="code">bscanf&nbsp;ic&nbsp;fmt&nbsp;f</code>, where:</p>

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