Re: reading a line through scanf

gyan wrote:
>
> I want to read a line with white spaces though scanf.
> So i used:
> scanf("%['/n']",string);
>
> above is working in one program, but in other..what may be the reason?

#define LENGTH 20
#define str(x) # x
#define xstr(x) str(x)

int rc;
char array[LENGTH + 1];

rc = scanf("%" xstr(LENGTH) "[^\n]%*[^\n]", array);
if (!feof(stdin)) {
getchar();
}
if (rc == 0) {
*array = '\0';
}

/* rc will be either 1, 0, or EOF */

--
pete
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