Reading In File With fscanf Question

For a project, I have to read in input from a file, but the tricky part is that each line could have one of four formats:
"char long char string int float"
"char long string"
"char long string int"
"char long string int float"
Would this fscanf statement work for reading in the format?

Code:

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fscanf(input,"%c %ld %s %d %f%[^\n]",&todo,&id,symbol,&quantity,&price);

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Also, I want to read in line by line so that I can process the variables before moving onto the next line. Is there an easy loop I can use with fscanf to do this?

> Would this fscanf statement work for reading in the format?
I suggest you read the line using fgets(), then you can have 4 separate goes at parsing it with sscanf, without having to worry about back-tracking with fscanf, in case you get it wrong.

By four separate goes, do you mean call sscanf four different times with my different formats? Then only one will work correctly depending on the format of that line correct?

Exactly!

Sweet, thank you so much, this is much easier than I was making it out to be.