stream A file pointer. format A pointer to a wide-character string containing the format specifications. . . . Optional expressions whose resultant types correspond to conversion specifications given in the format specification. If no conversion specifications are given, the output sources can be omitted. Otherwise, the function calls must have exactly as many output sources as there are conversion specifications, and the conversion specifications must match the types of the output sources. Conversion specifications are matched to output sources in left- to-right order. Any excess output sources are ignored.