Thread: Reading data from files

Assuming that your string buffers are 101 characters in length:

Code:

fscanf("%d | %100[^|] | %d | %100[^|] | %d", &id, nameBuf, &type, genreBuf, &stock);

Edit: yeah it works... thanks alot man. Going to look up what the %[ specifier does exactly now. Mind explaining how it works in detail?

thanks anyway.

>Mind explaining how it works in detail?
Any book on C can tell you, but you can think of it as a simple regular expression. A character is read from the stream as long as it is inside the character set (inside the square brackets). The ^ symbol compliments the entire set so that it matches anything not in the set. So %100[^|] will read at most 100 characters or until a | is found.