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);
^
Should you not use '\n' instead?And should you not exclude the newline
when trying to read a newline? I feel [^\n] might just be more
appropriate.
> above is working in one program, but in other..what may be the reason?

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