Can fscanf() read whitespace?

Question

I\'ve already got some code to read a text file using fscanf(), and now I need it modified so that fields that were previously whitespace-free need to allow whi

Answer 1

You're running up against the limits of what the *scanf family is good for. With fairly minimal changes you could try using the string-scanning modules from Dave Hanson's C Interfaces and Implementations. This stuff is a retrofit from the programming language Icon, an extremely simple and powerful string-processing language which Hanson and others worked on at Arizona. The departure from sscanf won't be too severe, and it is simpler, easier to work with, and more powerful than regular expressions. The only down side is that the code is a little hard to follow without the book—but if you do much C programming, the book is well worth having.