scanf and regular expressions

Hi,

I have the following statement to my code:

sscanf(line, "%[^=\n]=%[^\n]", tag, value);

which if I understand well it means scanf any character till a newline or an = character is encountered and store it to tag.

If that is correct how can I add the white space character to be excluded as well. Or is there any way to truncate the white space at the end of tag since line is:

name = Foo Bar\n\0

and with the aboce sscanf tag is
name \0
there is a space before the \0.
and value is
Foo Bar\0

sscanf(line, "%[^ =\n]%*[ =]%[^\n]", tag, value);
The second being a sequence of spaces and =, with the * meaning the assignment is suppressed.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Salem

sscanf(line, "%[^ =\n]%*[ =]%[^\n]", tag, value);
The second being a sequence of spaces and =, with the * meaning the assignment is suppressed.

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Thanks, that works just fine.