Simple C question

From MSDN:

To read strings not delimited by space characters, a set of characters in brackets ([ ]) can be substituted for the s (string) type character. The corresponding input field is read up to the first character that does not appear in the bracketed character set. If the first character in the set is a caret (^), the effect is reversed: The input field is read up to the first character that does appear in the rest of the character set.

Note that %[a-z] and %[z-a] are interpreted as equivalent to %[abcde...z]. This is a common scanf function extension, but note that the ANSI standard does not require it.

In other words, it should read everything so long as it's numeric, basically, in your example.

-fel

So would it just discard these read values?

I imagine it would read them into your buffers (the variables after your argument, i, x, and name). Generally scanf just stops when it runs out of what's assigned by the argument.

-fel