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09.12.2008 at 01:27PM PDT, ID: 23727751

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sscanf problem with semicolon delimiters

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The attached code snippet illustrates the problem whereby sscanf does not decode a string of variables delimited by semicolons but the same coding method does work for if comma delimiters are used.
n gets a value of 1 and n2 gets a value of 3.

I am using Borland C++ Builder but I am sure that this is a C language issue.

         
             char linebuff[] = {"abc;def;ghi\n"};
    char linebuff2[] = {"abc,def,ghi\n"};
    char s1[20];
    char s2[20];
    char s3[20];
 
    int n,n2;
 
    n = sscanf(linebuff,"%[^;],%[^;],%[^'\n']",s1,s2,s3);
    n2 = sscanf(linebuff2,"%[^,],%[^,],%[^'\n']",s1,s2,s3);

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