Can we specify variable field width in a scanf() format string?

Can we specify variable field width in a scanf() format string? If possible how?

- It is possible to specify variable field width in a scanf() format string by using %s control string.

- The %s reads a string of variable field width up to the first white space character.

Example:
scanf("%s", name);   // where name is a character array

- The scanf() stores the results away in variables which you provide in the argument list and reads the data from the console or from a FILE stream and parses it.
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