SSCANF Formated String Input Function (C-Style)

Section: Input/Ouput Functions

Usage

Reads values from a string. The general syntax for its use is
  [a, count, errmsg, nextind] = sscanf(text,format,[size])

Here format is the format string, which is a string that controls the format of the input, size specifies the amount of data to be read. Values that are parsed from the text are stored in a. Note that sscanf is vectorized - the format string is reused as long as there are entries in the text string. See printf for a description of the format.