scanf("3c",&c);

scanf("%3c", &c);

My girlfriend CC asked me a question about C programming language today, “What does scanf("%mc", &c) mean?” When I heard this question, I immediately thought that it should resemble printf("%mc", c), which means writing character c in m-chars width to standard output. Therefore, scanf("%mc", &c) should mean reading character c in m-chars width from standard input and I wrote a simple test file as following:

# include<stdio.h>

int main(){
   
    char c;
    scanf("%3c", &c);
    printf("%c\n", c);
    return <