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Good suggestion ;)

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Yes, but that leaves the newline in the input buffer, which CAN lead to difficulties elsewhere - so we then ALSO need to write code to find out if there is a newline in the string or not, and if not...

char word[15];
fgets(word,16,stdin);

You should NOT lie to fgets() as to the length of your buffer. It's best to use sizeof() rather than a constant, that way, if you change the variable itself,...

scanf("%c"..) leaves a "newline" in the input buffer, so you get an empty line from fgets(), since it reads everything up to the next newline. Add a space after the format of scanf, e.g. scanf("%c...