programming question

[gsh]

If I have a file with a bunch of values seperated by '|', what is the best way
for reading them if I'm using C? The lines look like a|b|c|d|e
where a,b,c,d can be floats, integers, or even strings. It seems like there should
be an easy way to read this without having to %*c past the | characters, but I'm stumped.

Comments

[nminusone.livejournal.com]

in sscanf etc there is a syntax roughly like %[~|]s , which will read a string up to the next | character. You can actually tell it to read strings and give it a set of 'acceptable' characters, and "~|" of course says anything but | is acceptable.

I believe this is ANSI, but not sure.

Not sure what will happen with end of lines. I usually read a whole line via other means then sscanf it apart, if needed.

[gsh]

Yea, I'm trying to use a scanset of %[^|]s
but when I add that, nothing else in the line seems
to get added. Frustrating.

[drwex]

strtok() is your friend.