Read a full name by sscanf

Question

I'm using C++, but I decided to parse the lines of a log file with sscanf. After reading each line, it should extract data and store them to variables.

string test = "[06/03/2013 18:15:23] INFO - Open [Johny Cage]";

int day, month, year, second, minute, hour;
char name[128];

int c = sscanf(test.c_str(), "[%d/%d/%d %d:%d:%d] INFO - Open [%127[^\n]%c]",
               &day, &month, &year, &second, &minute, &hour, name);

if (c == 7)
{
    cout << name << endl;
}

I need read the name as Johny Cage (The name maybe has spaces) and store it to name, but the output is:

Johny Cage]

The problem is the trailing ]. How can I use sscanf which it doesn't read last ] ?

Answer 1

Use [^]] instead of [^\n]. Also, remove the %c at then end of your scan format string.

int c = sscanf(test.c_str(), "[%d/%d/%d %d:%d:%d] INFO - Open [%127[^]]]",
               &day, &month, &year, &second, &minute, &year, name);