How to use scanf for accepting values in NSString?

Question

I have to use scanf() for accepting name of user in NSString object.
If i use %s then it will show me error. My Code is :

NSString *name;
scanf("%s",&name); //It is showing error
scanf("%@",&name); //It also show me error

What I should do?

You declare `name` as a pointer, then use a pointer to that pointer as argument. That won't work even with old C-strings. — Some programmer dude, Mar 30 '12 at 09:31
possible duplicate of [Using scanf with NSStrings](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3220823/using-scanf-with-nsstrings) — sch, Mar 30 '12 at 09:34

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 30 '12 at 09:27

You can't use scanf(), since it can't take a NSString object as an argument. You can first scan characters in a char * c-'string' and after that create a NSString from it with - (id)initWithCString:(const char *)nullTerminatedCString encoding:(NSStringEncoding)encoding.

How to use scanf for accepting values in NSString?

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