How to Extract Numbers from String in C?

A possible solution using sscanf() and scan sets:

const char* s = "ab234cid*(s349*(20kd";
int i1, i2, i3;
if (3 == sscanf(s,
                "%*[^0123456789]%d%*[^0123456789]%d%*[^0123456789]%d",
                &i1,
                &i2,
                &i3))
{
    printf("%d %d %d\n", i1, i2, i3);
}

where %*[^0123456789] means ignore input until a digit is found. See demo at .

Or, if the number of numbers is unknown you can use %n specifier to record the last position read in the buffer:

const char* s = "ab234cid*(s349*(20kd";
int total_n = 0;
int n;
int i;
while (1 == sscanf(s + total_n, "%*[^0123456789]%d%n", &i, &n))
{
    total_n += n;
    printf("%d\n", i);
}

here after a simple solution using sscanf:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

char str[256]="ab234cid*(s349*(20kd";
char tmp[256];

int main()
{

    int x;
    tmp[0]='\0';
    while (sscanf(str,"%[^0123456789]%s",tmp,str)>1||sscanf(str,"%d%s",&x,str))
    {
        if (tmp[0]=='\0')
        {
            printf("%d\r\n",x);
        }
        tmp[0]='\0';

    }
}

Make a state machine that operates on one basic principle: is the current character a number.

• When transitioning from non-digit to digit, you initialize your current_number := number.
• when transitioning from digit to digit, you "shift" the new digit in:
  current_number := current_number * 10 + number;
• when transitioning from digit to non-digit, you output the current_number
• when from non-digit to non-digit, you do nothing.

Optimizations are possible.

If the numbers are seprated by whitespace in the string then you can use sscanf(). Since, it's not the case with your example, you have to do it yourself:

char tmp[256];

for(i=0;str[i];i++)
{
  j=0;
  while(str[i]>='0' && str[i]<='9')
  {
     tmp[j]=str[i];
     i++;
     j++;
  }
  tmp[j]=0;
  printf("%ld", strtol(tmp, &tmp, 10));
  // Or store in an integer array

}

#include<stdio.h>
#include<ctype.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
void main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
char *str ="ab234cid*(s349*(20kd", *ptr = str;
while (*ptr) { // While there are more characters to process...
    if ( isdigit(*ptr) ) {
        // Found a number
        int val = (int)strtol(ptr,&ptr, 10); // Read number
        printf("%d\n", val); // and print it.
    } else {
        // Otherwise, move on to the next character.
        ptr++;
    }
}

}

Or you can make a simple function like this:

// Provided 'c' is only a numeric character
int parseInt (char c) {
    return c - '0';
}