Confused about fgets, clearing the buffer, etc

Good day...

In order to analyze how the fgets function works, I wrote this little program:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
    char line[10];
    fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
   
    printf("%sworld", line);
   
    getchar();
 
    return 0;
}

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This is how I understand this: if I type something with eight characters and hit enter, fgets will read the eight characters plus the \n and put a \0 at the end. Am I correct? The getchar() function forces me to hit enter again to exit the program because there's nothing in the input buffer.

Now if I type something with nine characters, will fgets read the nine characters, put a \0 at the end of the array and put leave the \n in the input buffer? Am I correct here?

I am wondering now what would be a good way to take care of this in a, let's say, menu loop.
I was thinking about creating a function something along the following lines

Code:

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void get_rid_of_newline(char line[])
{
    int c;
    char *ptr;
    if((ptr = strchr(line, '\n')) != NULL)
        *ptr = '\0';

    else
        while((c = getchar()) != '\n' && c != EOF)
            ;
}

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and use right after each user input. What do you have to say about all of this? Thanks for your comments and suggestions.

> fgets will read the eight characters plus the \n and put a \0 at the end. Am I correct?
Yes.

> put a \0 at the end of the array and put leave the \n in the input buffer? Am I correct here?
Yes.

> I was thinking about creating a function something along the following lines
Indeed - something fairly similar to that is in the FAQ.