Choose a point in PHP sscanf?

Question

This does not work:

list($value) = sscanf('foo.bar','%s.bar');
echo $value; //foo.bar

While doing this:

list($value) = sscanf('foo bar','%s bar');
echo $value; //foo

Any suggestions really appreciated. Thank.

Answer 1

You can use the base (negated) character class instead s, as in:

list($value) = sscanf('foo.bar','%[^.].bar');
echo $value; //foo

Answer 2

you can use explode instead of sscanf () for what you want to do.

$str = "foo.bar";
list($value1,$value2) = explode(".",$str);
print $value1;

Answer 3

I think it is by design . Honestly, here, to be honest, use preg_match.