# StdIO - Scanf

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**Created:** [August 13, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/stdio-scanf/10367 "2009-08-13T04:09:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![bayetan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bayetan](https://forums.digi.com/u/bayetan)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2009, 4:09am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/stdio-scanf/10367/1 "2009-08-13T04:09:10Z")

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I was surprised to see that Dynamic C does not inlude the complete ANSI C… specifically, “scanf”. Is there a reason for that or is it part of anther library that I missed? Or is there another easy way to perform formatted scans?

Thasks,  
Ben