Re: i need help about Turbo C

"Tom St Denis" <tomstdenis@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
pipito wrote:
Hi...i am a beginner in C programming...
my question is like this...
im using the scanf in C to accept input data in output area,

printf("name: ");scanf("%s",name);

You need to add a "\n" or the printf won't always show. The stream is
only guaranteed to flush if you send a newline.
[...]

Another approach is to use fflush:

printf("name: ");
fflush(stdout);
fgets(name, sizeof name, stdin);

This isn't absolutely guaranteed to work, but it should work on any
system where this kind of interactive prompting makes sense.

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