[DGD] sscanf

[David Jackson]

This behavior makes it easy to have a do-while loop quickly break a 
sentence down into words.

-D


At 09:51 PM 12/4/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:36:22PM -0800, Chooser Fireman wrote:
> > Question on sscanf ... how can I do:
> >
> > if (sscanf(sInput, "%s %s", sParam1, sParam2)
> >
> > and allow for sParam2 to be more than 1 word and even a sentence?
>
>That's the default behaviour of DGD, as opposed to the C *scanf()
>behaviour:
>
>     void
>     process_input(string line)
>     {
>         string verb, rest;
>
>         if (sscanf(line, "%s %s", verb, rest) < 2) {
>             verb = line;
>             rest = nil;
>         }
>         /* ... */
>     }
>
>This will split up a line like 'put foo in bar' into 'put' and
>'foo and bar' or a line like 'smile' into 'smile' and nil.
>
>Erwin.
>--
>Erwin Harte <harte at xs4all.nl>
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