Thread: fgets not getting user input

fgets does not want to get the input from the keyboard. What I have been reading on the forums is that I need to flush the buffer. Either I haven't been able to figure that out or that is not what I need.

Code:

      printf("Enter an exact name to search for a title:");

      fgets(bookName, MAXDATANAME, stdin);\

In the FAQ, I saw this:

Code:

  puts("Flushing input");
  
  while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n' && ch != EOF);
  
  printf ("Enter some text: ");
  
  (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin))

But I am not exactly sure what ch and getchar do. So can someone help me figure out how to get fgets read from the keyboard?

Thanx

I don't think it is working because it is reading a \n of EOF that I have not put in.

I finally got it to work! Thanks for your guys help.
This is what I added:

Code:

do{
   fgets(bookName, MAXDATANAME, stdin);
}while(bookName[0] == '\n');