fscanf（）/ sscanf（） - 匹配变长的空格？

Question

I would to use sscanf() or (preferably) fscanf() to scan /proc/meminfo and return MemTotal:

MemTotal:        1027156 kB
MemFree:          774596 kB
Buffers:           23816 kB
Cached:           198300 kB

Since the number of spaces between MemTotal: and the actual number varies, I'm wondering if sscanf() is smart enough to parse something like:

sscanf($line, "MemTotal:\s+%d");

Will the padding and alignment specifiers of sprintf() work with sscanf() as well?

I would try this out on my own, but I don't have a dev / Linux environment available ATM.

Answer 1

Yes, sscanf is smart enough to parse that with an arbitrary number of spaces between. You don't even need to specify it in any special way. Just do

sscanf($line, '%s%d');

and you'll get

Array
(
    [0] => MemTotal:
    [1] => 1027156
)

Unfortunately, the PHP Manual isn't too complete about what you can use as the format string, but since it's based on the UNIX command, you can look at other documentations to find what options you have:

• http://docs.roxen.com/pike/7.0/tutorial/strings/sscanf.xml
• http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/scanf/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanf_format_string

It's a bit fiddly to get them working though.