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From: walker@unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SAS/C - getchar()
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.181202.15908@unx.sas.com>
Date: 12 Sep 90 18:12:02 GMT
References: <90250.211833TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
Lines: 32

In article <90250.211833TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu> TEW105@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>include# <stdio.h> (or whatever the standard one is>
>
>main
>{
>  char showall;
>
>  printf ("Show all output (y/n)? \n");
>  showall=getchar();
>
>  blah... blah.. blah..
>
>}

Try using fgets() instead of getchar().  It gets a whole line
from input, terminated by a newline character.

char buffer[100];
fgets(buffer, 100, stdin);
if(buffer[0] == 'y' || buffer[0] == 'Y') showall = 1;
else showall = 0;


blah... blah... blah...


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