c - How to skip a line when fscanning a text file?

Question

I want to scan a file and skip a line of text before reading. I tried:

fscanf(pointer,"
",&(*struct).test[i][j]);

But this syntax simply starts from the first line.

Answer 1

I was able to skip lines with scanf with the following instruction:

fscanf(config_file, "%*[^
]
");

The format string matches a line containing any character including spaces. The * in the format string means we are not interested in saving the line, but just in incrementing the file position.

Format string explanation:
% is the character which each scanf format string starts with;
* indicates to not put the found pattern anywhere (typically you save pattern found into parameters after the format string, in this case the parameter is NULL);
[^ ] means any character except newline;
means newline;

so the [^ ] means a full text line ending with newline.

Reference here.