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From: ron@well.sf.ca.us (Ronald Hayden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Simple question.
Message-ID: <24528@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 1 May 91 05:18:23 GMT
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cfiddyme@gara.une.oz.au (Kith Kanan) writes:

> Could someone please tell me if it is possible to read a string with
> scanf() and not have the string printed on the screen.
>                          Thanks.
>                                 Chris.

scanf() will always echo the characters, but getchar() won't.  If
you're receiving more than one character, though, you'll have to call
getchar() multiple times, as it only processes a character at a time.