how to ignore whitespaces in fscanf()

Question

I need to use fscanf to ignore all the white spaces and to not keep it. I tried to use something like the combination between (*) and [^\\n]<

Answer 1

from the fscanf man page:

   A directive is one of the following:
  ·      A sequence of white-space characters (space, tab, newline, etc.;
          see isspace(3)).  This directive matches  any  amount  of  white
          space, including none, in the input.

so

fscanf(file, " %s\n");

will skip all whitespace before reading in characters.