In my game, the player can enter commands as long as 4 words, but sometimes a command only has one word, for example: 4 word command is: put 40 platinum bag 1 word command is: west so i''m setting up scanf as: char command1[23], command2[23], command3[23], command4[23]; scanf("%s %s %s %s", command1, command2, command3, command4); but the problem with this is that if a player enters one word command or any command that''s noy 4 words, the computer will keep asking you for the the other commands and would not process the entered commands. I am looking for a better way to do this, or maybe something that''s not "%s" so that it can also like include in white space, so I can do manipulation afterwards. Thanks for your help I want to work for Squaresoft ;)

use gets() and then parse it using strstr() or strchr()


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using scanf like this is dangerous. You''re only allocating 23 bytes for a command. What happens if the user enters 24 bytes before a space? use fgets instead. That way you can chop the input string up yourself as need be.

Thanks guys!

I just found a great function to parse the command, it''s strtok();



I want to work for Squaresoft ;)

FordPerfect, using it that way is dangerous, but since the scanf() function is very flexible, you can make it stop reading when it reads in a certain number of characters... and plus, we''re not talking about what is safe and what isn''t here... we''re trying to convert a char to it''s equivalent number.. or some $)-(it like that..


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