switches are used. This permits individual fields of
the scan listing to be extracted with ease. The string is simply a format
string and the file is simply a format file. See
-.BR mh\-format (5)
+.IR mh\-format (5)
for the details.
.PP
In addition to the standard
-.BR mh\-format (5)
+.IR mh\-format (5)
escapes,
.B scan
also recognizes the following additional