What does %*c do when getting input from stdin?

Question

I know what it does, and it is a format specifier.
but I have no clue on how this works.
It gets the last input, and just doesn't save it. But how?

Answer 1

The starting asterisk indicates that the data is to be read from the stream but ignored (i.e. it is not stored in the location pointed by an argument). Reference: http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/scanf/

So the data would not be saved in the variable.