What are scanf(“%*s”) and scanf(“%*d”) format identifiers?

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For printf, the * allows you to specify the minimum field width through an extra parameter, e.g. printf("%*d", 4, 100); specifies a field width of 4. A field width of 4 means that if a number takes less than 4 characters to print, space characters are printed until the field width is filled. If the number takes up more space than the specified field width, the number is printed as-is with no truncation.

For scanf, the * indicates that the field is to be read but ignored, so that e.g. scanf("%*d %d", &i) for the input “12 34” will ignore 12 and read 34 into the integer i.

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