Is there a way to use sscanf with stdin?

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I have a program that either takes data from a file or from the standard input. I wrote code for scanning the file using sscanf. I was wondering if I could reuse that code but with stdin instead of using scanf?

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How could I modify this so that it works with standard input? while(fgets(buffer, MAX_LEN, input) != NULL) { if (sscanf(buffer, "%s %s %s", one, two, three) == 3) { } }

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