C using scanf() for | delimited string

Question

I want to input a few strings then two integers. Whilst the strings are separated by \'|\', the integers are kept apart by a \'.\'.

Looking around online I have seen s

Answer 1

You must use either [] or s construct, but not both and your format string must incluse the separators.

So you should write something like :

sscanf(str, "%[^|]|%[^|]|...",...)