sscanf debug help
Can someone please help me.
I don't understand why this doesn't work.
should work out to:Code:char *line, *tag, *a, *b; int n; strcpy(line, "This is an order for (XYZ-2) some order"); tag = strchr(line, '('); strcpy(line, &tag[1]); // get rid of all text before and including ( sscanf(line, "%s%[-]%d%[)]%s",a, n, b);
a = "XYZ"
b = "some order"
n = 2
I tried
sscanf(line, "%s-%d)%s",a, n, b);
but it does the same thing.
wolf
How about allocating some memory for line. Sure, you CAN just copy data into random uninitialized pointers, but that's what we here call a BadThing(TM).
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
wolfCode:char line[40], *tag, a[40], b[40]; int n; strcpy(line, "This is an order for (XYZ-2) some order"); tag = strchr(line, '('); strcpy(line, &tag[1]); // get rid of all text before and including ( sscanf(line, "%s%[-]%d%[)]%s",a, n, b);
If you are trying to scan for data and have it not placed into variables, you need to use the * symbol. Example:
sscanf( somedata, "%s %*d", mystring );
This actually scans both variables, but only stores the first one. You don't need to do all of what you're doing:
ie: "%[-]"
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
no change.Code:sscanf(line,"%s %*d %*s",a, n, b);
"no change" tells me nothing. Give me an example of what input you want, what output you expect, and what is stored in what variables, and I'll tell you why it doesn't work.
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
I should be more specific. Sorry.
using this code
results inCode:char line[40], *tag, a[40], b[40]; int n = -1; strcpy(line, "This is an order for (XYZ-2) some order"); tag = strchr(line, '('); strcpy(line, &tag[1]); // get rid of all text before and including ( sscanf(line, "%s%d%s",a, n, b);
a = "XYZ-2)"
n = -1
b = uninitialized character array
I suspect it has something to do with a lack of whitespace between the XYZ and the integer. Am I way off here?
wolf
YOu're dead on. The scanf family uses whitespace to find separation of fields. So it won't even look for a digit until the first whitespace. That method will not work as is. I'd find a way to break it into 2 strings, a and b, and then break a into the digit and the string with strchr looking for the -.
results in
a = "XYZ-2)"
n = -1
b = uninitialized character array
I suspect it has something to do with a lack of whitespace between the XYZ and the integer. Am I way off here?
Given this string:
"This is an order for (XYZ-2) some order"
You jump ahead to:
"X"
From there:
sscanf( buffer, "%s", buffer1 );
This should give you:
"XYZ-2" in buffer1, and ignore the rest.
There is no integer after the 2, so why are you scanning for one? Since apparently you don't want the remainder of the string anywhere else, don't bother scanning for it. Otherwise, just do the same thing you did before, and use 1+strchr( line, ')' ) to skip past it.
Just keep in mind what you want and take it a chunk at a time. The scanf functions are really only good for precicely formatted data. The down side of them is, when anything is not just so, you have to write the code to recover from it.
Quzah.
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
good for precise formatting.
Not so in this case. I've got part of it to work using multiple strchr and atoi.
Thanks quzah and Javariel. I do appreciate your help.
wolf
Hi!
Try to understand this:
alexCode:char line[]="This is an order for (XYZ-2) some order"; char a[50], c[50]; int b, n; n = sscanf(line, "%*[^(]" /* skip up to "(" */ "(" /* skip "(" */ "%[^-]" /* read up to "-" (into a) */ "-" /* skip "-" */ "%d" /* read decimal integer (into b) */ " " /* skip whitespace */ ")" /* skip ")" */ " " /* skip whitespace */ "%[^\n]",/* read up to newline (into c) */ a, &b, c); if(n>0) printf("a = %s\n", a); if(n>1) printf("b = %d\n", b); if(n>2) printf("c = %s\n", c);
when you put it like that. I understand now.
Thanks for laying it out.
wolf
