Ignore 'E' when reading double with sscanf

Question

I have input such as \"(50.1003781N, 14.3925125E)\" .These are latitude and longitude.

I want to parse this with

sscanf(string,\"(%lf%c         


        

Answer 1

Process the string first using

char *p;
while((p = strchr(string, 'E')) != NULL) *p = 'W';
while((p = strchr(string, 'e')) != NULL) *p = 'W';

// scan it using your approach

sscanf(string,"(%lf%c, %lf%c)",&a,&b,&c,&d);

// get back the original characters (converted to uppercase).

if (b == 'W') b = 'E';    
if (d == 'W') d = 'E';

strchr() is declared in the C header .

Note: This is really a C approach, not a C++ approach. But, by using sscanf() you are really using a C approach.