Limiting input

Is it possible to limit user input to say a few number of characters, or even just 1?

for example, when the user enters 1 character, the program will immediately move on to a next line of code?

getch() or getche().

This is from an old post of mine:

It doesn't look very nice but it works fine.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main()
{
        int c;

        c = getch();
        printf("%c\n", c);
        .....statements....
        return 0;
}

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If you want more than 1 character use a for to loop each character and print each character at the time which it was given.

for more than one character you could use:

fgets( string, 10, stdin);

that would accept only the first nine characters from the keyboard, and replsce the last character with a '\0'.
Only useful if you're entering a string, other wise I'd go with the 'for' loop.