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Trimming special(?) characters with sscanf

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I've got a file with data to read into a program where the fields are enclosed by []. I thought that

sscanf(ques, "[%s]", ques);

should work to trim the brackets off as far as I'm aware, but it only trims off the leading [ not the trailing ]. Is this because [] is used in the sscanf formatting or is there some other reason? I've tried changing to {} and () and those did exactly the same.

Help!
Dec 10 '07 #1
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if you want to trim off [ ] or anything from a C string the best function to use is strtok.
Dec 10 '07 #2

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