What is the Scan from string pattern for "match everything" ?

Hello,
Using Scan from string for a while, I know that %s only matches string up to a whitespace. And I also thought %[^] would match everything including whitespaces. But it turned out that it would stop at the closing square brace.
So, what is the real scan pattern for match everything including whitespaces ?

What do you want the Scan From String to end on?  Or are you just grabbing the rest of the string?  If that is your scenario, then just use the "remaining string" output.  It might help if you give a full example of a normal input string and EVERYTHING you want as an output.

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    Use %% in your format string so that it knows to use the percent literally.  So %%RH=%f
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    Hi Everybody,
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    RavensFan suggested the appropriate function for your requirement, however you can also use an alternative, which is 'Spreadsheet String To Array'.
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    "JB" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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