Trimming special(?) characters with sscanf

[Kammy]

I've got a file with data to read into a program where the fields are enclosed by []. I thought that

sscanf(ques, "[%s]", ques);

should work to trim the brackets off as far as I'm aware, but it only trims off the leading [ not the trailing ]. Is this because [] is used in the sscanf formatting or is there some other reason? I've tried changing to {} and () and those did exactly the same.

Help!

[mschenkelberg]

if you want to trim off [ ] or anything from a C string the best function to use is strtok.