Thread: Problem with sscanf

You can read the first three input items, then use a loop to read the rest according to the 3rd input item.

For variable number of arguments you can use ... (ellipsis notation ) in function declaration and definition.

And for getting those argument you can read about these functions and get to know that,

Code:

#include <stdarg.h>

       void va_start(va_list ap, last);
       type va_arg(va_list ap, type);
       void va_end(va_list ap);
       void va_copy(va_list dest, va_list src);

Actually, scanf and printf also uses this mechanism to use variable number of arguments in a function.

For this,

"The exact requirement is that the 3rd argument specifies how many more arguments do I need to scan. So they are kind of dependent."

You can have like this mysscanf(const char * str, const char * format, ..., int argc);

or you can have like main function main(int argc, char **argv);

It is also getting variable number of arguments and count for that arguments. But it will be stored like strings. If you want other types you need to convert that into that data type.