fscanf with colon (:) delimited data

Question

How do I fscanf this piece of data? There are no empty rows between the data and delimeter is a \':\'

VS1234567890654327:Rob Fordfi         


        

Answer 1

You can include the delimiters as part of your format to fscanf, like this:

while (4 == fscanf(filename, "%[^:]:%[^:]:%d:%d", string[size], name[size], &number1[size], &number2[size])) {
    ...
}

Note the use of %[^:] format specifier. It says "any character except ':' is accepted". Also note that char* parameters are passed with no ampersand, because they are already pointers.

Demo on ideone.