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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Substitute for gets()
Message-ID: <978@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 9 Feb 89 11:30:28 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >I mean, gets() in such a loop does just fine, ie it would return "foo
 >bar", but I have yet to kludge up a functionally equivalent scanf().
 >
 >Does this mean gets() is indispensable ? 

No, it means no such thing.  Look under "f", as in "fgets()" in your
reference manual.  Yes, it leaves a '\n' at the end of the line, but
it's not *that* big of a pain to remove it.