Thread: string input...with white spaces?

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    Talking string input...with white spaces?

    My memory's fuzzy, so if you can just tell me how to input a string, and have C include the white spaces, I can get on with my project.

    Until then, I'll just fiddle with it with a one word string array.

    If that isn't coherent enough, C usually cuts off string input eg: scanf ("%s", string1); at \0 characters, or white spaces. I'd like to include the white spaces, so that the input Hello World does not get cut off and recorded as Hello.

    Thanks!

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    Check the FAQ.

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    Talking

    I'd like to do it with scanf, if possible.

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    >I'd like to do it with scanf, if possible.
    Why? scanf is unsafe, if you make it relatively safe it becomes complex, debugging its mysterious problems would cause a Tibetan monk to scream obscenities, and there are far better alternatives that are easier to use. So again, why?

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    I'm not sure...well, could I use 'gets' instead?

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    >I'm not sure...well, could I use 'gets' instead?
    You're going from bad to worse. Please read the FAQ. Or this one on gets. Or this one on scanf. Or the ones they reference.

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    >I'm not sure...well, could I use 'gets' instead?
    You could, but it wouldn't be any better. How about fgets?

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