Comments on: how to take string as input from the user ??? https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/how-to-take-string-as-input-from-the-user/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: m siddarth https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/how-to-take-string-as-input-from-the-user/#comment-898 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 06:56:30 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=3717#comment-898 Implement the following code before any scanf() or fgets().

int c;
/* discard all characters up to and including newline */
while ((c = getchar()) != ‘\n’ && c != EOF);
Reason: it’s because of the \n stuck in the input stream and we have to flush it out every time.

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