sscanf

Syntax

  #include <stdio.h> 
   
  int sscanf (
     const char   *string,   
     const char   *format,   
     ... );
  

Parameters

string

(IN) Points to a character string to scan.

format

(IN) Points to the format control string. See Scan Format Control Strings.

...

(IN) Points to where the converted string is to be stored. The number of arguments is determined by the format string.

Return Values

If successful, returns the number of input arguments for which values were successfully scanned and stored. Otherwise, returns EOF when any of the following occur:

If a read error occurs, sscanf also sets the error indicator for the stream and sets errno to one of the following:

See Also

• fscanf
• scanf
• vsscanf