Re: gets() is dead

Tak-Shing Chan wrote:
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Ian Collins wrote:

Charles Richmond wrote:

You do *not* have to "gets()" nasty. I sometimes use bubble sort
too, when I think it is appropriate. I am surprise you would
use so much bandwidth just to disparage me. How about telling
me something I don't know about "gets()" that would convince me
*not* to use it for games or my own "quick and dirty" use.

There isn't any good reason to use it.

There's one: simplicity. You don't need to handle the
newlines yourself.

Discarding the last character in a buffer read with fgets() is hardly a
burden.

--
Ian Collins.
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