C using scanf() for | delimited string

Question

I want to input a few strings then two integers. Whilst the strings are separated by \'|\', the integers are kept apart by a \'.\'.

Looking around online I have seen s

Answer 1

This seems to work...

#include 

main()
{

char x[32] = "abc|def|123.456.";
char y[20];
char z[20];
int i =0;
int j =0;
sscanf(x,"%[^|]|%[^|]|%d.%d.",y,z,&i,&j);
fprintf(stdout,"1:%s 2:%s 3:%d 4:%d\n",y,z,i,j);

}