scanf.3: Minor wording fix in %s description

Reported-by: Stefan Tauner <tauner@technikum-wien.at>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>

diff --git a/man3/scanf.3 b/man3/scanf.3
index 801e96120e795fb2015c7957e2cffe3d52e55e7a..c6adec01fbd5207816198d41335c65b7a6e3daec 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/scanf.3
+++ b/man3/scanf.3
@@ -451,8 +451,8 @@ Equivalent to
 .TP
 .B s
 Matches a sequence of non-white-space characters;
-the next pointer must be a pointer to character array that is
-long enough to hold the input sequence and
+the next pointer must be a pointer to the initial element of a
+character array that is long enough to hold the input sequence and
 the terminating null byte (\(aq\\0\(aq), which is added automatically.
 The input string stops at white space or at the maximum field
 width, whichever occurs first.