 spreads as much as possible, until the
      following bounding condition holds: <ul>
<li>a whitespace has been found (see <a href="Scanf.html#space"><i>The space character in format strings</i></a>),</li>
<li>a scanning indication (see scanning <a href="Scanf.html#indication"><i>Scanning indications in format strings</i></a>) has been
         encountered,</li>
<li>the end-of-input has been reached.</li>
</ul>

      Hence, this conversion always succeeds: it returns an empty
      string if the bounding 