Ask on a Ogg specific mailing lists. You are more likely to find someone who knows what how to do this there. Show them what you have tried, so they can point out what you are doing wrong. Your first question looks like someone who didn't read the book, and that will make them mad. Your second question makes it clear that you read the book (the right one?), so the book needs to be fixed. Before doing that though, try it. Write a somple C program, and try calling that function with all the options you can think of to see what happens. Then look at the results elsewhere to see what really happened.

Yeah, sscanf looks like the thing I need. I have to write a programme where the user can specify the structure of a file to get the tags from the filename. E.g. if you have an MP3 Files with the structure like this: "01-Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon_SPEAK TO ME.mp3" "02-Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon_breathe in the air.mp3" The user should have the possibility to enter the mask like this %t-%a_%s (or -_) the programme should now parse the filename and set the params for track album and song. I've seen a mask editor in several programmes (e.g. Tag&Rename). If you could provide me with some more codesamples, that would be great (I'm a newbie to C++). BTW, In a next step, our programme should analyze the filenames and suggest a mask by itself.