Alternative to _input in VS2010?

I recently ported a project from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Visual Studio 2010. The problem here is that my code uses the built-in VC++7.1 _input. _input is used in a function which simulates the functionality of GNU glibc's vsscanf().

I realize that VS2010 provides _input_l as a rep开发者_运维知识库lacement, however this function crashes consistently every time is called.

Is there any other replacement to this? What according to you is a recommended implementation of vsscanf() on Windows?