Help with sscanf with a pipedelimter

[fugazi]

char *test="Just Dance 2 by UBI Soft|Nintendo Wii";
char title[100],platform[100]

sscanf(test,"%[^|],%s",title,platform);


printf("%s\n",platform);



If I print the tile it shows the just dance 2 by ubi soft
but if i try to print platform its empty

If I chance it to a comma it works but not with pipe and I have to use pipe

Any idea why its not working?

[BillyTKid]

sscanf(test,"%[^|]|%s",title,platform);

[fugazi]

Thanks! I was looking everywhere on examples and couldnt find one.

Thanks for your help!

[rags_to_riches]

BillyTKid, don't you think it might have been helpful to explain why your code works?

[fugazi]

Well the only difference was the comma replace by the pipe.

I believe what it does is it scans the string and takes the first part up to the pipe than it uses the pipe as the next starting point. I had a comma there and that is why it failed.

That is what I assume.

[ssharish2005]

"%[^|]|%s"

%[^|] - Reading everything apart of '|' char and bind it to a variable
| - next char should be '|', if it was successful match just discard it
%s - Read rest of the char and bind it to a vriable provided

When you had ',' there is was matching ',' when it was '|' char and match failed the string format and the sscanf function return with just 1 as it binded just one variable but not two.

ssharish