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Old 03-15-2010
using sscanf
How can I separetely extract the string and int after "dribble" ? (sscanf must limit TEXT to 9 chars to avoid buffer overflows.)

How come this code does not work with "dribbletext08" but does with "dribbletext05" ?

Code:
int main(void)
{
    char TEXT[10] = "";
    int NUMBER = 0;

    sscanf("dribbletext08", "dribble%9[^0-9]%i", TEXT, &NUMBER);

printf("%s\n%i\n", TEXT, NUMBER);

    return 0;
}

# 2  
Old 03-15-2010
If you give the 5 it will work correctly. But if you give 8 it will take the value as octal value. So that only it is not working.
# 3  
Old 03-15-2010
Thanks. Yes, actually according to the man page, %i has a different meaning according to the context. Therefore, just use %d instead.
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