Char variables - more than 1?

[ollieo]

Hello, I am trying to write a program to take a character, then take another character and print both of them with a - in between.

However I can't seem to get the second scanf to work. The first one works fine

It just skips it and goes straight to the last printf function.

#include <stdio.h>
char a,b;
int main(){
printf("First character: ");
scanf("%c",&a);
printf("Second character: ");
scanf("%c",&b);
printf("%c, %c",a,b);
getchar();
}

I can't see where my program is going wrong, or could it be the compiler? Any help appreciated.

thanks
ollie

[Bayint Naung]

Here is the answer.

[ollieo]

Thank you, that helped.

[zhangzhongke007]

#include <stdio.h>
char a,b;
int main(){
printf("First character: ");
scanf("%c",&a);
getchar();
printf("Second character: ");
scanf("%c",&b);
printf("%c, %c",a,b);
getchar();
}

Remember, all you need to do is add a funtion.Because there a newline character in the buffer after you entered the first character .