how to ignore quote in fscanf

Question

I have problem with read string from text file. In file there is data in this format:

something="test"

And I want to read string between quotes. So in my program I do:

fscanf(fil,"language=\"%s[^\"]",data);  

or

fscanf(fil,"language=\"%s\"",data);

but I always get test" in variable data. How can I ignore the second quote? Except putting space before in file. I want exactly that format in text file.

I will be grateful for help.

Answer 1

If you don't want to think too deeply about formatting strings you could always read in the full string than take out the sub string that you want.

Example:

The following code searches through str for the first " and last " and puts the substring in strNew.

#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;  //used for ease but not the best to use in actual code.

int main()
{
  string str = "variable=\"name\"";
  cout << str << endl;
  int first = str.find("\"");
  int last = str.find_last_of("\"");
  string strNew = str.substr (first + 1, last - first -1);
  cout << strNew << endl;
  return 0;
}