Thread: sscanf help!!

I'm trying to read in this list of data entries and then find particular parts of the entry out. I have been told that sscanf is what to use but am having absolutely no luck! I think part of the problem is I don't know the proper format for sscanf... here's the code I currently have... any help would be much appreciated

Code:

for (j=0; j< max_number; j++)
			{
			   for (t = 0; t<max_number && sscanf (list_of_runners, "%c", &gender) == '('; t++)
				{
				age_index = t;
				age_array [age_index]++;

				}
			}

I also don't know if age_array[age_index] will increment the number stored in the spot age_index of the array!

sscanf returns "the number of input items assigned".

Code:

sscanf (list_of_runners, "%c", &gender) == '('

In this case it should return 1 when it is successful. You might be on some strange non-ASCII system for which ')' is equal to one, otherwise this will always evaluate to false, which in turn makes the whole loop control condition evaluate to false.

Thanks I've tried using that... and maybe it's just that I'm tired... or maybe just that I am dumb (going for the former not the latter!) but I just can't get my program to scan up to the "(" and then store the the number enclosed in the parenthesis!
When I ask it to only print if sscanf == 1 I get nothing and if I ask it to print if sscanf !=1 I get an infinite loop

1 1 1 Abdelkhader El Mouaziz (31) NIKE, MAR 2:10:09 2:10:09 30:26 1:03:08 1:36:51 4:58

The stuff in bold is what I want to extract

Thanks so much! It finally works!!! Yay!