Why not replace the "=" with another character before you call sscanf? Cheers, Bill Jon wrote: > Hi people. > > Can anyone help with what should be a simple problem. I have some text > in the following form. Its a temperature reading from a wireless sensor, > the format is T<sensor number>=<float ish> <TAB><TAB><Two digit ascii > checksum> > > T1=18.0<TAB><TAB>XX\n\r > > Some examples: > > T1=-11.5 EA > T1=24.0 9D > > Im trying to convert this string into a sensor ID, a floating point > reading and a checksum as 3 variables using sscanf > > sscanf(line,"T%d=%f\t\t%X",&sensorid,&temperature,&checksum); > > No amount of variations on a theme seem to give me an entire decode > here, seems the equals seems to screw things up. Anyone any ideas how I > can make this work? > > Thanks for any advice, > Jon > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ Please visit a saintly hero: http://www.jakemoore.org