Re: parsing a string into substring and integers

Peter Nilsson wrote:
Ian Collins wrote:
monkeys paw wrote:
Hello all, what is the easiest way to parse the following
string into components?


char state[3];
int number;
int calendar_year;

int main()
{

char *s = "CA200617456";

}

What would need to happen after the parse is this:

state= "CA"
number=17456
calendar_year=2006

If the input format is fixed, use strncpy, passing the start position
and size of each field.

If you want to convert the number to integer, strtol and friends can help.

Or just let sscanf do all the work for you...

int r = sscanf(s, "%2s%4d%4d", state, &number, &calendar_year);


Thank you for doing his homework.

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