Thread: C read colon delimited text file

The code reads a text file delimited by colons : and formatted as follows
1111:2222:3333
How would I store the values separated by colons : into separate variables ?
any help would be appreciated.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

int read_file();

int main()
{

read_file();

return 0;

}

int read_file()
{
char line[100];
char file_location[40];

FILE *p_file;

printf("Enter file location: ");
scanf("%s",file_location);

p_file =fopen(file_location, "r");

if(!p_file)
{
    printf("\n File missing:");
    return 0;
}

while(fgets(line,100,p_file)!=NULL)
{
    printf("%s \n",line);
}

fclose(p_file);

return 0;
}

You could use strtok, I suppose; or if you know how many fields there are on a line (ie that there will always be four fields) you could use scanf (or in this case sscanf).