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Aaron James Rasmussen
Aaron James Rasmussen

Reputation: 17

I need help interpreting char arrays in C

If I were given a character array with a maximum length of say 1000 that will always follow the guidelines int,int,char,int for example "12,6,@,3" What is the easiest way to separate them and store them to their respective variable type. I know their is such things as isdigit and such but its really daunting to think of how many nested if's I would need to interpret these chars not knowing how many characters each int could be. I'm very new to programming so please don't be rude I'm just looking for help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 63

Answers (2)

evaitl
evaitl

Reputation: 1395

If you are really sure of your input, you could just use sscanf():

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
    typedef struct Ds {
        int i1;
        int i2;
        char c1;
        int i3;
    } Ds;
    Ds ds; 
    sscanf("12,6,@,3","%d,%d,%c,%d",&ds.i1, &ds.i2, &ds.c1, &ds.i3);
    printf("%d,%d,%c,%d\n",ds.i1,ds.i2,ds.c1,ds.i3);
    return 0;
}

Upvotes: 2

Sergey Kalinichenko
Sergey Kalinichenko

Reputation: 726669

If the input format is fixed like that, you can use sscanf:

char inp[] = "12,6,@,3";
int a, b, d;
char c;
if (sscanf(inp, "%d,%d,%c,%d", &a, &b, &c, &d) == 4) {
    printf("Received: %d %d %c %d", a, b, c, d);
}

Demo.

Upvotes: 2

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