How to sscanf only the last word from a string?

Asked Oct 14 '15 at 16:00

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I have a string ive read from a file using fgets and want to only scan the last word in that string. For example if my string is

Hello my name is fred

I would only want to read the word 'fred'

I know i could just use sscanf("%s %s %s %s %s", . . . . . .) but that seems unnecessary as i only need the last value. Can this be done using sscanf?

edited Oct 14 '15 at 16:16

asked Oct 14 '15 at 16:00

Jack Johnson

can;t you use `strrchr()`? – Sourav Ghosh Oct 14 '15 at 16:03
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9219940/traversing-c-string-get-the-last-word-of-a-string would do it. – cadaniluk Oct 14 '15 at 16:03
@cad thanks for the link. – Sourav Ghosh Oct 14 '15 at 16:04
is there a way to do it using sscanf, i havent learnt strchr – Jack Johnson Oct 14 '15 at 16:11

How to sscanf only the last word from a string?

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