### Function

# Pango scan_word

deprecated: 1.38 since: 1.0

#### Declaration [src]

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

#### Description [src]

Scans a word into a `GString` buffer.

A word consists of [A-Za-z_] followed by zero or more [A-Za-z_0-9]. Leading white space is skipped.

Available since: 1.0

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 caller of the function takes ownership of the data, and is responsible for freeing it.
  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.