I want to use sscanf to get the information from the line content up to the char before ":". the first char of the line is "\t". I used the below one but captured the ":" too. Can advise how I can capture the content before ":"

sscanf(line, "%s%*[\t]%*[^:]", dict[i].word[j].type);

If the content of line array is

TYPE: ABCDE

then by using the above sscanf, it will capture "TYPE:" into the dict[i].word[j].type. But i want to just capture "TYPE" instead of "TYPE:"