Re: reading a line through scanf

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 01:30:36 -0400, 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?


This scand for a matching sequence of ' / and n characters so I would be
very surprised if this "works" for what you want opn any system.

The appropriate function for reading a line is fgets(). While scanf() can
be made to do this it is not what it is designed for and is awkward. Once
you've read a line you can use all of C's string handing functions
including sscanf() to decode it.

Lawrence

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