Need help with swscanf function

So I started a new program and I'm using wide characters (wchar_t). This is all new to me and I'm having a hard time adjusting to the new syntax. One of the problems I'm having is trying to read a line from a file. I normally use sscanf. But I now have to use swscanf. Here's the line:

card is a struct pointer passed into the function
This is what readLine is:

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1                1        2        FALLEN TITAN*        1                4                304                1880        0        d

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swscanf(readLine,L"%d %d %d %[^*] %d %d %d %d %d %[^\n]",&card->copies,
                                                        &card->level,
                                                        &card->type,
                                                        card->name,
                                                        &card->rarity,
                                                        &card->faction,
                                                        &card->damage,
                                                        &card->hp,
                                                        &card->specialLetters,
                                                        card->traits);

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The issue with this is that the first 3 ints are read fine, and then the string is read fine. But everything after the string is zero and the last string (traits) is empty. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with my %[^*]. I used that in sscanf to read all characters up to the asterisk. That allowed me to read strings with spaces because the asterisk acts like a delimiter.

Any ideas on what is going wrong?

Two problems. If name and traits are wchar_t strings then you need to put an l (lowercase L) before the opening square brackets in %[^*] and %[^\n]. They don't automatically read wchar_t strings.

However, it wouldn't work even with regular strings since your first string is ended by an asterisk (according to your format) but you never eat the asterisk. So it should be more like

Code:

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L"%d %d %d %l[^*]* %d %d %d %d %d %l[^\n]"

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Thanks for the advice john. I tried putting l before the bracket and it didn't work.
I added what readLine is in my first post (probably while you were responding), I have the asterisk there. This does work in my other programs when I'm using sscanf. I don't use wide characters in my other programs. I thought I would try it here but it's beginning to be more trouble than what it's worth.

Edit: I take that back. It worked. When I read your line, I didn't notice the asterisk after the bracket. That worked out as expected. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by john.c

Two problems. If name and traits are wchar_t strings then you need to put an l (lowercase L) before the opening square brackets in %[^*] and %[^\n]. They don't automatically read wchar_t strings.

However, it wouldn't work even with regular strings since your first string is ended by an asterisk (according to your format) but you never eat the asterisk. So it should be more like

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L"%d %d %d %l[^*]* %d %d %d %d %d %l[^\n]"

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I'm a dummy. You're right from the start. In my other programs, I used %[^*]*. I didn't even see that extra asterisk I put there.

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I'm a dummy.

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Nah. Format strings are notoriously fiddly things. :)