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From: marty@cernvax.cern.ch (hugues marty)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Problem with sscanf
Summary: Why is sscanf("1,,3", "%[^,],%[^,],%[^,]", s1, s2, s3) wrong?s
Keywords: sscanf
Message-ID: <4058@cernvax.cern.ch>
Date: 5 Feb 91 09:55:27 GMT
Organization: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics
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I'm having problem with sscanf. I would like to get items in a string
delimited by a coma. So I wrote :

sscanf("1,,3", "%[^,],%[^,],%[^,]", s1, s2, s3);

I get "1" into s1, "" into s2...
But what goes into s3 is *not* "3". Of course, I could write
my own function, but I would like to know if something is wrong
with this.

Tnx
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