From: dgd at list.imaginary.com (Erwin Harte)
Date: Tue Dec  4 22:05:01 2001
Subject: [DGD] sscanf

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.
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Erwin Harte