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[boredaxel]

I was doing some elementary programming and I find it werid that fscanf(abc, "%c"....) is different from fscanf(abc, "%c "...). Can anyone enlighted me on the difference a space after %c makes?? Im confused. Thanks alot

[dcs]

Question 12.17

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Perhaps surprisingly, \n in a scanf format string does not mean to expect a newline, but rather to read and discard characters as long as each is a whitespace character. (In fact, any whitespace character in a scanf format string means to read and discard whitespace characters. [footnote] Furthermore, formats like %d also discard leading whitespace, so you usually don't need explicit whitespace in scanf format strings at all.)

[boredaxel]

so if i leave out the whitespace, it will read in whitespace and newline in the data file as character? Is that it?