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Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf

From DFS <nospam@dfs.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf
Date 2017-06-16 15:36 -0400
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On 6/16/2017 2:22 PM, James R. Kuyper wrote:

> This is an alternate response, taking the above code at face value. I 
> suspect that in your actual code, the labels and the data might not be 
> known at compile time, or might change during the running of your 
> program. 


Yep.  It's input from a .csv file (1st row is labels).

I'm now thinking of 2 approaches, one with sscanf and one without:

* with sscanf:  replace the commas with spaces and use sscanf the way
   you indicated.

   sscanf(line,"%s %s %s %s",...)


Dealing with quote-delimited data will be fun.
DFS,Q1,shirts,100
"J Kuyper",Q1,shoes,200



* without sscanf: 'brute-force' read each character and parse data
   between commas.






Thanks for your help.

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Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-16 13:33 -0400
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-16 17:46 +0000
    Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-16 14:02 -0400
      Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-16 18:15 +0000
        Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-16 12:28 -0700
    Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-16 12:20 -0700
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2017-06-16 13:47 -0400
    Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-06-16 18:01 +0000
      Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-06-16 12:03 -0700
        Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-16 15:33 -0400
          Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-16 13:16 -0700
      Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-06-16 12:31 -0700
      Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-16 15:45 -0400
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-16 14:07 -0400
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-16 14:22 -0400
    Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2017-06-16 15:36 -0400
      Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-06-16 17:17 -0400
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2017-06-16 12:06 -0700
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Real Troll <Real.Troll@Trolls.com> - 2017-06-16 17:30 -0400
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf ike@iceland.freeshell.org - 2017-06-17 16:49 +0000
  Re: Splitting strings into arrays with sscanf Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2017-06-17 18:25 -0400

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