How to write one string into five variables in C?

Question

C++ / C#

The goal is this: the user enters five numbers separated by a space. they can be 1 digit, 2 digit, etc. Question: how to write these five numbers not into one char variable, but into five variables (five arrays). Example: the user entered 1 423 3 53 6. variable a=1, b=423, c=3, r=53, e=6, while each element of the array contains one number: b[0]=4, b [1]=2
I write in C, a program without an interface (looks like a command line).

Answer 1

scanf

Answer 2

Get the entire string, then use strtok.