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From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (lanett mark)
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Subject: Re: MPW C 3.1 scanf problem
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Date: 22 Jan 91 18:31:16 GMT
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David_Anthony_Guevara@cup.portal.com writes:

>I have a (hopefully) real simple problem.  I am using MPW C 3.1
>to do some programming for a C class.  What I want to do is to prompt
>the user and leave the cursor at the end of the prompt line.  My problem
>is that scanf will not read the input if the cursor is at the end of the
>prompt line.  I have to start on a newline for scanf to get the value.
[example code deleted]

MPW Buffers lines, and a scanf or anything will read in _everything_ on the
cusor's line. You must do the newline before.

Mark Lanett