a href="Scanf.html#conversion"><i>Conversion specifications in format strings</i></a>),</li>
<li>scanning indications to specify boundaries of tokens
      (see scanning <a href="Scanf.html#indication"><i>Scanning indications in format strings</i></a>).</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="space">The space character in format strings</h3><p>As mentioned above, a plain character in the format string is just
    matched with the next character of the input; however, two characters are
    special exceptions to this rule: the s