How to seperate integer values using sscanf in c?

Question

I have a string which captures details stored in data

User 6%, System 18%, IOW 0%, IRQ 0%

What i am doing is

sscanf(data,"User %d,System %d,IOW %d,IRQ %d",&user,&sys,&iow,&irq);

I am getting wrong output . why ? Is is like i am missing something ?

Paul R · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-19 07:28:42Z

You left out the % symbols and some spaces - try:

sscanf(data,"User %d%%, System %d%%, IOW %d%%, IRQ %d%%",&user,&sys,&iow,&irq);

Phantom · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-19 07:30:52Z

You have wrong output because you input string is like:
User 6%, System 18%, IOW 0%, IRQ 0%

But you try to scan a string like:
User 6, System 18, IOW 0, IRQ 0

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