[xaib_xaib]

i need to make a program that gets input in format 8:7:60 but only processes the numbers. the 3 numbers are stored in 3 different variables.

[jjl]

Check on the man page on scanf. You can suppress input by specifying a "*" before the format type specifier.

For example, the following will take the format of integer-character-integer while suppressing the character assignment.

int a, c;
scanf("%d%*c%d", &a, &c);