He downloaded the plugin ( sscanf.dll on Windows, sscanf.so on Linux) and the include file. He added #include <sscanf2> to his script.
He even used sscanf for file parsing (reading configs) and dialogs (extracting multiple inputs from a single string). samp sscanf
The magic line:
One night, 35 players online. Alex's manual parsing failed on a single space. The command callback returned 0 (meaning "command not found"), so SAMP thought /givecash was an unknown command. Then another system tried to interpret it, and – . All 35 players disconnected. He downloaded the plugin ( sscanf