scanf to read in whitespace characters

hi, quick question. i want to read in a string using scanf and the printf before it says "enter the name of the team". but if enter manchester united it accepts it but the next question that comes up is "enter the name of the team""enter the name of the team". so it asks twice and accepts manchester united as two teams instead of one. how do i change this? thanks

Can you post your code?

If your string has spaces you should be using fgets() to retrieve the string instead of scanf(). The scanf() function stops processing a string when it encounters a white space character.

Jim

Originally Posted by jimblumberg

If your string has spaces you should be using fgets() to retrieve the string instead of scanf(). The scanf() function stops processing a string when it encounters a white space character.

Jim

ah ok thanks jim i didnt know that was the difference between them. i appreciate the help.

fgets will store the newline character which is something you'll likely have to find and handle accordingly. You can still use scanf if you know some of its tricks:

Code:

char str[40];

printf("Enter some text: ");
scanf("%39[^\n]",str);

printf("You entered: \"%s\"\n",str);

The scanf here will read and store everything up to 39 characters (save room for the terminating null) or until it comes across a newline character. This means it will accept multiple white space as long as it's not a newline.