String with Spaces. HELP.

[tanpearl]

Why is it that if i use scanf for input of a string data type, the words entered after a space are not printed?

[matsp]

Because scanf (with a basic %s format) will see spaces as "string separators".

I'd suggest that you use fgets() to read strings with spaces. It is much easier and more safe than trying to do it with scanf().

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Mats

[MK27]

You can also use a custom conversion specifier like %[ A-Za-z] which will capture uppercase letters, lower case letter, and spaces. %[ A-Za-z*!;] will capture all that plus *, ! or ;

etc.

[vart]

to read string using scanf till the \n char the following format could be used
"%[^\n]"

of course adding width specifier will be good practice as well