reading a date with sscanf

Question

I\'ve got to read a date format (dd-mm-yyyy;) from a char* string using sscanf with this line of code:

sscanf(string, \"%[^-]-%[^-]-%[^;];\", day, month, yea         


        

Answer 1

You need to pass the address of the int variables:

int day, month, year;
sscanf(string, "%d-%d-%d;", &day, &month, &year);

sscanf() returns the number of assignments made, recommend checking the return value before using day, month and year:

if (3 == sscanf(string, "%d-%d-%d;", &day, &month, &year))
{
}