(PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5, PHP 7)
Parses input from a string according to a format
mixed sscanf ( string $str, string $format [, mixed &$... ] )
The function sscanf() is the input analog of printf(). sscanf() reads from the string str and interprets it according to the specified format, which is described in the documentation for sprintf().
Any whitespace in the format string matches any whitespace in the input string.