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Environment: VC++ 6.0, Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000
VC++ provides the vsprintf() function but for some strange reason does not provide the complementary vsscanf() function which is available on most Unix systems. The VC++ library defines a static function called input() which is not exposed to end users. This function is exactly what vsscanf() does.
There are two choices that one has:
- Extract the input() source from the VC++ CRT sources and use it in your code.
- Use this alternative implementation
Several C++ implementations exist to plug this hole but most of them do not provide the identical API available on Linux. This implementation enhances the CStringEx::Scanf extension written by Rainer Bauer to provide an identical API to that which is available on Linux.
An example usage of vsscanf() (in a Win32 console application with MFC support) is shown below:
#include “stdafx.h”
#include “vsscanf.h”CWinApp theApp;
using namespace std;
// ProcessNumEmailMsgs takes variable number of parameters and
// uses vsscanf to parse the parameters.
void ProcessNumEmailMsgs(char *input, char *format, …)
{
va_list argList;va_start(argList, format);
vsscanf(input, format, argList);
}int _tmain(int argc, TCHAR* argv[], TCHAR* envp[])
{
int nRetCode = 0;// initialize MFC and print and error on failure
if (!AfxWinInit( ::GetModuleHandle(NULL),
NULL,
::GetCommandLine(),
0))
{
// TODO: change error code to suit your needs
cerr << _T(“Fatal Error: MFC initialization failed”) << endl;
nRetCode = 1;
}
else
{
int startMsg, endMsg, totalMsg;
char *input = “Showing 1 – 10 of 100”;
char *format = “Showing %d – %d of %d”;// Variable Number of parameters are passed to this
// function
ProcessNumEmailMsgs(input, format, &startMsg, &endMsg, &totalMsg);printf(“Input String: %sn”, input);
printf(“StartMsg : %dn”, startMsg);
printf(“EndMsg : %dn”, endMsg);
printf(“TotalMsg : %dn”, totalMsg);
}return nRetCode;
}
