708: Mainline

If you want to skip over material that would otherwise be read by a scanf call, you add an asterisk to the specification:

char input_buffer[100]; 
scanf ("%*s%*s%s", input_buffer); 
printf ("The author's surname is %s.\n", input_buffer); 
--- Data ---
   Patrick Henry Winston 
--- Result --- 
The author's surname is Winston.