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LETTERsscanfULETTER Reads formatted input out of a string.

Overview
#include <stdio.h>

int sscanf(char *s, const char *format, ...);

int r;
char *s;
const char *format;

Portability
ANSI

Description
Similarly to scanf, this function reads characters and interprets them according to the input format template. The only difference is that sscanf does not read these chars from stdin, but from the string *s.
The format template "format" is followed by a sequence of pointers required to store the data read.

Returns
The number of data (strings, numbers etc.) read.

See also
scanf , fscanf , sprintf