C :: Save Output From Ansi Escape Sequence To Variable

I'm trying to get the current position of the cursor in the terminal window. I know that the ansi escape sequence "33[6n" will display the current x and y location of the cursor. But what I can't figure out is how to store the x and y locations into their respective integer variables.

This is what I've done so far:

Code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
int line, column;
char cursor_curr_pos[9];
char escape_sequence[] = "33[6n"; //outputs x and y location of cursor e.g. ^[[18;1R
snprintf(cursor_curr_pos, 9, "%s", escape_sequence); //save output to string
sscanf(cursor_curr_pos, "^[[%d;%dR", &line, &column); //only read numbers from string
}