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From: xmjschm@hscfvax.harvard.edu (MJSchmelzer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Substitute for gets()
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Date: 9 Feb 89 00:29:38 GMT
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Thanks to everyone who suggested using fgets() instead of gets().
(There, that was my summary of all the answers mailed to me.)

fgets() hadn't even occurred to me because I naively assumed it was like
fscanf() and fprint() in that it only differed by adding a stream
parameter.
   Fortunately, fgets() takes 3 parameters, including the all-important
buffer-size parameter. Here is the prototype (K&R2, p. 165):

char * fgets(char * s, int n, FILE * iop);

One final question: No one mentioned scanf("%255s", buffer).
This _does_ seem wrong to me, but I can't quite pin it down. Comments?

Thanks again!

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