C Tutorial/stdio.h/sscanf

sscanf

Item Value Header file stdio.h Declaration int sscanf(const char *buf, const char *format, ...); Function It is identical to scanf() except that data is from *buf. Return the number of variables assigned. A value of zero means that no fields were assigned. EOF indicates an error.

<source lang="cpp">#include <stdio.h>

 int main(void)
 {
   char str[80];
   int i;
   sscanf("hello 1 2 3 4 5", "%s%d", str, &i);
   printf("%s %d", str, i);
   return 0;
 }</source>