Module Scanf.Scanning

module Scanning: sig .. end

type in_channel 

type scanbuf = in_channel 

The type of scanning buffers. A scanning buffer is the source from which a formatted input function gets characters. The scanning buffer holds the current state of the scan, plus a function to get the next char from the input, and a token buffer to store the string matched so far.

Note: a scanning action may often require to examine one character in advance; when this ``lookahead'' character does not belong to the token read, it is stored back in the scanning buffer and becomes the next character read.

val stdin : in_channel

The standard input notion for the module Scanf. stdin is equivalent to Scanning.from_channel Pervasives.stdin.

Note: when input is read interactively from stdin, the newline character that triggers the evaluation is incorporated in the input; thus, scanning specifications must properly skip this character (simply add a '\n' as the last character of the format string).
Since 3.12.0

val open_in : string -> in_channel

Bufferized file reading in text mode. The efficient and usual way to scan text mode files (in effect, from_file returns a scanning buffer that reads characters in large chunks, rather than one character at a time as buffers returned by from_channel below do). Scanning.from_file fname returns a scanning buffer which reads from the given file fname in text mode.
Since 3.12.0

val open_in_bin : string -> in_channel

Bufferized file reading in binary mode.
Since 3.12.0

val close_in : in_channel -> unit

Close the Pervasives.input_channel associated with the given Scanning.in_channel.
Since 3.12.0

val from_file : string -> in_channel

An alias for open_in above.

val from_file_bin : string -> in_channel

An alias for open_in_bin above.

val from_string : string -> in_channel

Scanning.from_string s returns a formatted input channel which reads from the given string. Reading starts from the first character in the string. The end-of-input condition is set when the end of the string is reached.

val from_function : (unit -> char) -> in_channel

Scanning.from_function f returns a scanning buffer with the given function as its reading method.

When scanning needs one more character, the given function is called.

When the function has no more character to provide, it must signal an end-of-input condition by raising the exception End_of_file.

val from_channel : in_channel -> in_channel

Scanning.from_channel ic returns a formatted input channel which reads from the regular input channel ic argument, starting at the current reading position.

val end_of_input : in_channel -> bool

Scanning.end_of_input ic tests the end-of-input condition of the given formatted input channel.

val beginning_of_input : in_channel -> bool

Scanning.beginning_of_input ic tests the beginning of input condition of the given formatted input channel.

val name_of_input : in_channel -> string

Scanning.file_name_of_input ic returns the name of the character source for the formatted input channel ic.
Since 3.09.0

val stdib : in_channel

A deprecated alias for Scanning.stdin, the scanning buffer reading from Pervasives.stdin.