To use it, it must be imported from the module machine . Fmt must be an atom representing the format that will be passed to the C call to scanf . See the C documentation for scanf for the meaning of this string. Note that this argument is an atom, not a string, and the C escape characters are NOT recognized.
Types is a term whose subfields describe the types of the fields to be read.
The functor symbol of Type is ignored. Term is a term whose arguments will be unified with the field values read in. To use it, it must be imported from the module machine . Fmt must be an atom representing the format that will be passed to the C call to printf . See the C documentation for printf for the meaning of this string.