questions about scanf

[kirtikjr]

plz tell me what does line means:

scanf ("%[^\n]s",char);

and some variants like: "%*s" and "%*s%s"
plz correct if any thing is wrong..

[weaknessforcats]

The first argument for scanf(), printf(),etc is a char string containing code characters that have meaning to the function. All of these codes are in any book on C.

[newb16]

plz tell me what does line means:

scanf ("%[^\n]s",char);

and some variants like: "%*s" and "%*s%s"
plz correct if any thing is wrong..

The keyword for google is "[printf] format specifier".
First one afaik is "everything except \n" , what is %*s - I have no idea.