I have the following line from a file:

Name:   variable_length_string

and I’d like to extract the substring:

variable_length_string

from it. This is what I have:

  char* getProcStatus(const char* path) {
      printf("path: %s", path);
      char* chrptr_ProcessStatus = NULL;
      FILE* fd_status = fopen (path, "rt");
      char line[300];
      char name[5];                                                                                                                                                                           
   
      char* procName = NULL;
      if ( fd_status ) {
          if (fgets(line, sizeof(line), fd_status) != NULL) {
              sscanf(line, "%s%s", name, procName);
              if (procName != NULL) {
                  printf("%s", procName);
                  fclose(fd_status);
                  return procName;
              }
          }
      }

      return procName;
  }

I tried creating a name buffer just to store away the “Name: ” somewhere but it isn’t working at all (if (procName != NULL)) isnt executing.

How do I get a substring of variable length? All I know is that it ends with ‘n’ and it’ll always begin with ‘Next: ‘