C Tutorial/stdio.h/sscanf
sscanf
Item Value Header file stdio.h Declaration int sscanf(const char *buf, const char *format, ...); Function It is identical to scanf() except that data is from *buf. Return the number of variables assigned. A value of zero means that no fields were assigned. EOF indicates an error.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
char str[80];
int i;
sscanf("hello 1 2 3 4 5", "%s%d", str, &i);
printf("%s %d", str, i);
return 0;
}