Pango.scan_string
Description: Reference for Pango.scan_string

### Function

# Pangoscan_string

deprecated: 1.38

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    pango_scan_string (
      const char** pos,
      GString* out
    )

#### Description [src]

Scans a string into a `GString` buffer.

The string may either be a sequence of non-white-space characters, or a quoted string with ‘”’. Instead a quoted string, ‘"’ represents a literal quote. Leading white space outside of quotes is skipped.

Deprecated since: 1.38

Please do not use it in newly written code.

#### Parameters

`pos`

  Type: `const char**`

  In/out string position.

  The argument will be modified by the function.
  The returned data is owned by the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`out`

  Type: `GString`

  A `GString` into which to write the result.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`FALSE` if a parse error occurred.