[LIBC] Modfied Version of sscanf

[Martin Möller]

Am 01.05.11 00:53 schrieb "Daniel O'Connor" unter <doconnor at gsoft.com.au>:

Thanks for your reply.
Ok, another example. I try to parse a request, coming from a client in the
form:
    GET <resource> HTTP/1.1.

It is expected that <resource> can contain space characters (even if
its not the case in reality).

How would you do that with sscanf ?

With regards,
Martin
> 
> On 01/05/2011, at 2:14, Martin Möller wrote:
>> outputs total garbage on my FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE #0 amd64.
>> Is there already a way to do this or should we release a new version of
>> sscanf, e.g. called sscanfWS.
>> 
>> This modified version would output: Test 2->Test 3.
> 
> I think it does what it should.. %s is supposed to stop at whitespace.
> 
> You probably really want..
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> 
> int
> main(int argc, char **argv) {
>     char name [20], value [20];
>     int i;
> 
>     i = sscanf("Test 2->Test 3", "%[^-]->%[^-]", name, value);
>     printf("%d %s->%s\n", i, name, value);
> 
>     exit(0);
> }
> 
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