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scanf(format, &b) click to toggle source

Scans STDIN for data matching format. See IO#scanf for details.

See Scanf for details on creating a format string.

You will need to require ‘scanf’ to use #scanf.

 
               # File scanf.rb, line 768
def scanf(format, &b) #:doc:
  STDIN.scanf(format ,&b)
end

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