parsing with sscanf

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I'm having trouble parsing a line with sscanf.

My line is:

1941 How Green Was My Valley; John Ford

and I want to separate it into a number, string, and another string. I tried:

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if ( sscanf( buffer, "%d %41[^;] %51s", &pMovie->year, &pMovie->title,
				&pMovie->director ) == 3 )
if ( sscanf( buffer, "%d %41[^;] %51s", &pMovie->year, &pMovie->title,
				&pMovie->director ) == 3 )

But the separation doesn't work the way I want it to.

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Re: parsing with sscanf

How about something like:

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int main(void)
{
    char buffer[] = "1941 How Green Was My Valley; John Ford." ;
    int year = 0 ;
    char title[BUFSIZ] = { '\0' } ;
    char director[BUFSIZ] = { '\0' } ;
    if ( sscanf( buffer, "%d %[^;]; %[^.]", &year, &title, &director ) == 3 )
        printf( "Year = %d, title = %s, diretro = %s", year, title, director ) ;
    getchar( ) ;
}
int main(void)
{
    char buffer[] = "1941 How Green Was My Valley; John Ford." ;
    int year = 0 ;
    char title[BUFSIZ] = { '\0' } ;
    char director[BUFSIZ] = { '\0' } ;
    if ( sscanf( buffer, "%d %[^;]; %[^.]", &year, &title, &director ) == 3 )
        printf( "Year = %d, title = %s, diretro = %s", year, title, director ) ;
    getchar( ) ;
}

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Re: parsing with sscanf

yeah that's what I want, but how do you get the string after the semi-colon if there was no period at the end?

and why do you need a semi-colon after %[^;]

Last edited by degamer106; Nov 8th, 2006 at 6:07 pm.

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