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

An alternative is to use fgets() to read the entire line into a string, then use sscanf(). This has an advantage in debugging in that you can see exactly what data the function is working on.