Pointers

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Originally Posted by laserlight

Since fflush(stdin) results in undefined behaviour, it is possible that an implementation may actually cause it to "flush" the input buffer.

Oh, and don't use gets().

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what should i use if not gets?

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Originally Posted by Doc.

what should i use if not gets?

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Here is the forum's recommendation http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284351

Another one: http://cpwiki.net/gets
And be sure to read the buffer overflow article, especially the example and the quote to see its dangers.