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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Substitute for gets()
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Date: 8 Feb 89 21:11:35 GMT
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In article <721@hscfvax.harvard.edu> xmjschm@hscfvax.harvard.edu (MJSchmelzer) writes:
[Describes problems using scanf() in place of gets().]
>Does this mean gets() is indispensable ? 

I don't think so.  The simplest, safe replacement for gets() is
fgets().  You'll have to specify stdin explicitly, and you'll have to
strip off the trailing newline if you don't want it, but otherwise
it's just what you want.

Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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