fscanf and newline character

Question

I have fscanf to read lines of setting from a configuration file. Those settings have strictly predefined format which looks like

name1=option1;
name2=option         


        

Answer 1

Just add space at the end of the format string:

"%[^=]=%[^;]; "

This will eat all whitespace characters, including new-lines.

Quotation from cplusplus.com:

Whitespace character: the function will read and ignore any whitespace characters encountered before the next non-whitespace character (whitespace characters include spaces, newline and tab characters -- see isspace). A single whitespace in the format string validates any quantity of whitespace characters extracted from the stream (including none).