separating with sscanf(no spaces)

[Freespider]

hello...

i want to separate string like "!string"
i need to put the "string" to some char*...

i did

char firstWord[10];
sscanf(text,"!%s",firstWord);

why its not woking? and how to make it work?

i try to search, but nada....

[gerard4143]

Try this link:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/old-311/libref/Scanf.html

[gerard4143]

Try this link:

http://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/old-311/libref/Scanf.html

http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/521077-scanf-information

Or try googling scanf regular expression

[Freespider]

hey, it didnt hepled me, its refered to stringswith whitespaces
but in my case i dont have spaces between the words....

any options?

[gerard4143]

hey, it didnt hepled me, its refered to stringswith whitespaces
but in my case i dont have spaces between the words....

any options?

Did you try 'googling scanf regular expression '

Or did you try searching this site

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread242643.html

Narue has a link in the above posting that may help

[WaltP]

How about

char dummy;
char firstWord[10];
sscanf(text,"%c%s",&dummy, firstWord);