C sscanf (fscanf) behaving differently row from row - c

Question

I've this snippet of code which should read text from input file and put it in a struct.
void load(FILE *fin, struct camion payload[]){
int i=0;
char except;
char buf[1000];
while (fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),fin)){
except='A';
sscanf(buf,"%i-%i-%i %i %s %c",&payload[i].day,&payload[i]. month,&payload[i].year,&payload[i].nparcels,payload[i].origin,&except);
if (except=='E')
payload[i].except=1;
i++;
}
}
The fgets works as it should (tested it), but the fscanf starting with this file:
01-01-2013 354 hub_J
01-01-2013 109 hub_L
03-01-2013 129 hub_J
04-01-2013 265 hub_J
08-01-2013 488 hub_B
09-01-2013 127 hub_J
09-01-2013 136 hub_K
09-01-2013 97 hub_D
10-01-2013 369 hub_O
11-01-2013 455 hub_G
12-01-2013 125 hub_I E
13-01-2013 105 hub_O
13-01-2013 468 hub_C
13-01-2013 360 hub_H E
returns (the printing function is not the problem, the problem happens right when the sscanf is executed) this:
1- 1-2013 354 hub_J
1- 1-2013 109 hub_L
3- 1-2013 129 hub_J
4- 1-2013 265 hub_J
0- 0- 0 0
0- 0- 0 0
0- 0- 0 0
0- 0- 0 0
10- 1-2013 369 hub_O
11- 1-2013 455 hub_G
12- 1-2013 125 hub_I E
13- 1-2013 105 hub_O
13- 1-2013 468 hub_C
13- 1-2013 360 hub_H E
The rows with E mean oversize payload, thus E is not always present, but this shouldn't be the error.
I'm banging my head against the wall.
thanks in advance

Answer 1

Scanning with %i and values with a leading zero are assumed to be octal. 08 and 09 are not octal values. Use %d instead as leading zero's are ignored and values are in base 10.
For the sscanf you might try this. It will scan the five items present in all the lines. The %n specifier will give you the characters processed by the scan. You can then test buf[offset]. If a newline is there, then the entire string was processed. Otherwise there is more to the string and a second sscanf can capture the remaining character.
Disclaimer: I have not compiled and tested this code.
void load(FILE *fin, struct camion payload[]){
int i=0;
int offset=0;
char except;
char buf[1000];
while (fgets(buf,sizeof(buf),fin)){
except='A';
if ( ( sscanf(buf,"%d-%d-%d %d %s%n"
,&payload[i].day
,&payload[i].month
,&payload[i].year
,&payload[i].nparcels
,payload[i].origin
,&offset)) == 5) {
if ( buf[offset] != '\n') {
sscanf(buf+offset, " %c", &except);
}
}
if (except=='E') {
payload[i].except=1;
}
i++;
}
}