scanning values from a char array

Okay, part of my homework is to read from a logfile and output some specific information. (YES THIS IS HOMEWORK, AND NO, I DO NOT WANT YOU TO DO IT FOR ME! :wink:)

I would just like to know if it's possible to scan through a char array, and assign values to variables from it.

By the way, I haven't even tried to compile this yet, so I don't know if it even compiles. I'm pretty sure this won't work, as I'm passing fscanf() a char*, and not a FILE*.

Code:

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void outputThings( char* line)
{
        int day, hour, min, sec;
        int ii;

        char* month;
        char* temp;
        char* process = (char*)malloc(30*sizeof( char));
        char* message = (char*)malloc(200*sizeof( char));

        fscanf( line,"%s %d %d:%d:%d    %s: %s", month, &day, &hour, &min, &sec, process, message);

        printf("%s %d %d:%d:%d %s: %s\n", month, day, hour, min, sec, process, message);

}

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As I said, I don't want you guys to do this for me, just tell me what function I should be using to scan the array, or tell me I'm going about it the wrong way.

thanks,
The Doctor

fscanf reads from a file
sscanf reads from a string
scanf reads from stdin
All do the same thing in terms of conversions and assignments. It's only the source of the characters which differ.

fgets() and sscanf() is a particularly useful combination.

Thank you! I'm sure that's exactly what I needed to know.