how to use sscanf?

is it similar to scanf?
when i use scanf it can read the words in the screen automatically one after another.i use a char array to store the string,then use sscanf to read the words,but it just only reat out the first word in the string array every time. so if i want to read the words in the string one by one, just like scanf, what should i do?

thanks!
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