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Ok, I'm stumped. Either sscanf is broken or I'm not understanding
somthing. Probably the later. Hopefully someone here can help me out
with this before I chew my own leg off.

First what I'm trying to do:

I have a line in a text file that looks like

'TYPEBE','P6','FFGHT'

and I'm trying to get the data in the between the first two quote marks
into to strings for use later in the program.


The code I'm using is:

char line[600];
char string1[7];
char string2[7];

.....

fgets (line,256,xiresults_file);
sscanf (line,"%*c%[^']s%*c%*c%*c%[^']s",string1,string2);

.....

This code sets string1 to TYPEBE, but string 2 is not being set to P6
as I expected it to. I'm probably doing something wrong, but I
just can't figure out what. Thanks in advance for the help

--
Dan Smith

"You don't have to be crazy to work here, we have on the job training"

Dan Smith wrote:
> Ok, I'm stumped. Either sscanf is broken or I'm not understanding
> somthing. Probably the later. Hopefully someone here can help me out
> with this before I chew my own leg off.
>
> First what I'm trying to do:
>
> I have a line in a text file that looks like
>
> 'TYPEBE','P6','FFGHT'
>
> and I'm trying to get the data in the between the first two quote marks
> into to strings for use later in the program.
>
> The code I'm using is:
>
> char line[600];
> char string1[7];
> char string2[7];
>
> ....
>
> fgets (line,256,xiresults_file);
> sscanf (line,"%*c%[^']s%*c%*c%*c%[^']s",string1,string2);
^ ^^
%[] and %s are distinct conversion specifiers.

sscanf(s, "%*c%[^']%*c%*c%*c%[^']s", string1, string2);
or
sscanf(s, "%*c%[^']%*3s%[^']s", string1, string2);

Jirka

I wrote:
....
> sscanf(s, "%*c%[^']%*c%*c%*c%[^']s", string1, string2);
^
> sscanf(s, "%*c%[^']%*3s%[^']s", string1, string2);
^
Forgot do delete these s', too.

Jirka

Dan Smith wrote:
> Ok, I'm stumped. Either sscanf is broken or I'm not understanding
> somthing. Probably the later. Hopefully someone here can help me out
> with this before I chew my own leg off.
>
> First what I'm trying to do:
>
> I have a line in a text file that looks like
>
> 'TYPEBE','P6','FFGHT'
>
> and I'm trying to get the data in the between the first two quote marks
> into to strings for use later in the program.
>
>
> The code I'm using is:
>
> char line[600];
> char string1[7];
> char string2[7];
>
> ....
>
> fgets (line,256,xiresults_file);
> sscanf (line,"%*c%[^']s%*c%*c%*c%[^']s",string1,string2);
>
> ....
>
> This code sets string1 to TYPEBE, but string 2 is not being set to P6
> as I expected it to. I'm probably doing something wrong, but I
> just can't figure out what.

Mainly, it's that you have extraneous literal 's's in your format string.

#include <stdio.h>


int main(void)
{
char line[] = "'TYPEBE','P6','FFGHT'";
char String1[7];
char String2[7];
sscanf(line, "'%[^']','%[^']", String1, String2);
printf("Input line: \"%s\"\n", line);
printf("Substrings: \"%s\" and \"%s\"\n", String1, String2);
return 0;
}


Input line: "'TYPEBE','P6','FFGHT'"
Substrings: "TYPEBE" and "P6"


--
Martin Ambuhl