Trouble reading integer from sscanf

Code:

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sscanf(x, "%s %d %s",  object.name, &object.price, object.category.b.name);

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Where x is an string and object.name and object.category.b.name are parts of structures as is object.price. The strings work fine and if I replace %d with double it also works fine. But %d and %u seem to give either really large numbers or something completely different from what is supposed to be scanned.

Code:

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typedef union{
        char name[12];
        int price;
        category_t category;


} object_t;

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There is another structure that connects category b to the above. changing int price to int* or unsigned int with corresponding %u in sscanf didn't help. Changing to double seems to produce the correct result however.

I've been working on this for several hours to no avail. Please help. I don't see how it could read doubles but not integers.

sscanf() (and the other function in the scanf() family) returns a very important number: the number of conversions successfully executed.
You really should test that number for the expected value

Code:

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if (sscanf(x, "%s %d %s", object.name, &object.price, object.category.b.name) != 3)
{
    fprintf(stderr, "Invalid input\n");
    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}

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object_t is not a struct, it's a union. That means name, price and category overlap, and you can't use all of them at once. This very well may be the cause of your problem. You probably want to change the word 'union' to 'struct'.

It would help if you gave us more information. What are the contents of x? Perhaps they are not what you think they are. You should print it out immediately before calling sscanf to be sure. The definition of category_t would help as well.

Give us the smallest, compilable example that we can use to test, and give use the input that is producing the incorrect results, the output you expect to get and what you actually get. That makes it easy for us to help you.