Reading a string from file in quotes..

Hello,
I have 2 strings the one following the other in a text file, liked this:
"text1" "text2"

Now, I need to read them without the quotes.. I am using sscanf function. I am trying to find the correct formatting, but I had no luck so far, so I thought I would ask here.

Thanks.

This is the C++ board, maybe this one is for the C board...

I would think about reading the file one character at a time.
checking that character for a quote and then storing the character into a string value at the appropriate position.

An idea:

Code:

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/* file.txt
"text1" "text2"
*/

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
  const char filename[] = "file.txt";
  FILE *file = fopen(filename, "r");
  if ( file )
  {
      char buffer[BUFSIZ];
      if ( fgets(buffer, sizeof buffer, file) )
      {
        char s[FILENAME_MAX], t[FILENAME_MAX];
        if ( sscanf(buffer, "\"%[^\"]\" \"%[^\"]\"", s, t) == 2 )
        {
            printf("s = [%s], t = [%s]\n", s, t);
        }
      }
      fclose(file);
  }
  return 0;
}

/* my output
s = [text1], t = [text2]
*/

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Good it worked!! Can you explain to me what all this formatting means? Why does it read the text in the quotes?

>Can you explain to me what all this formatting means?

Code:

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if ( sscanf(buffer, "\"%[^\"]\" \"%[^\"]\"", s, t) == 2 )

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Look for a double-quote.
Get a string that contains any character that is not a double-quote.
Look for a double-quote followed by a space and another double-quote.
Get a string that contains any character that is not a double-quote.
Look for a double-quote.

This is great, thanks.