scanf delimiter problem

Hi there,

I wrote the following code, what I intend to do is to use '!' as delimiter to save string to different variables, however, I found that all the characters include '!' save to first variable "name", would you please give me a hand. Thanks a lot.


#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
char name[128];
char address[128];
char phone[16];

scanf("%s!%s!%s!", &name, &address, &phone);
printf("%s %s %s", name, address, phone);
fflush(stdin);
getchar();
}

The delimiter with %s is always white space - you can't change it

To do what you want, you must use the scan-set feature

Like so
scanf("%[^!]!%[^!]!%[^!]!", name, address, phone);

1. You don't need the & when your variables are already arrays.
2. %[^!] is like %s, except it will read all characters upto the next !

> fflush(stdin);
This doesn't work on all platforms

It's generally better to do this
char buff[BUFSIZ];
fgets( buff, sizeof(buff), stdin );
sscanf( buff, "%[^!]!%[^!]!%[^!]", name, address, phone);

Since fgets reads a newline, the trailing newline problem (caused by scanf) disappears.

you are the man! many thanks