fgets in a function

[Granger9]

void create_entry()
{

fgets(a.fname, 51, stdin);
printf("%s", a.fname);
stop();
}

When this function is run it skips the fgets and goes straight onto the stop() function.

But using the same three lines in int main() it works. How can i slove this?

[Inept Pig]

The fgets() itself looks fine, are you using scanf anywhere in your program?

[Granger9]

Yes I am a lot

[Inept Pig]

Now, there's many people with more knowledge of this than me but, from what I've learnt/been told scanf() is bad and it leaves the input stream in a terrible mess, after using scanf put this line of code in:

while ( getchar() != '\n' );

This cleans up the mess left by scanf, seems to work for me...