From: johne AT parallax DOT co DOT uk (John Eccleston)
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Subject: Re: example of sscanf function
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 09:36:40 GMT
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Tron  wrote:
[Snip]
>examples:
>
>   char Buffer[100];
>   int Inteiro;
>   char Rest_of_Buffer[60];
>
>   void main(void)
>   {
>     sscanf(Buffer, "%s %d %[^\n]", First_arg, Inteiro, Rest_of_Buffer);

The Inteiro variable needs to be prefixed with & in order for the variable
to be accessed by the scanf function.  So the line becomes:

      sscanf(Buffer, "%s %d %[^\n]", First_arg, &Inteiro, Rest_of_Buffer);

The scanf functions require pointers to scalar variables in order to access 
them.

>   }

[snip]
>
>sscanf, scanf and fscanf, they are very powerfull functions... special for
>shells and parsing...
>

Very true.

Cheers

John

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