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From: kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Quirk??
Message-ID: <23498@hi.unm.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 88 22:51:52 GMT
References: <1653@ssc-vax.UUCP> <804@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov (Kurt Zeilenga)
Organization: U. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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In article <804@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
>Not that this requires a net response, I just like reading my posts :-)
>
>#define		clearline()		while (getchar() != '\n')
>ch = getchar();
>clearline();
>Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu

If you want to read the whole line (like for a command line parser),
then I would suggest using fgets() or gets() and then using scanf to
grab out whatever you wanted.  Examples? try K&R.
-- 
	Kurt (zeilenga@hc.dspo.gov)