Thread: Function getting skipped on first loop but not on the rest?

The fgets function in this loop:

Code:

for(int i = 1; i < players + 1; i++)    {
        printf("Enter your name player %d\n", i); //ask for name
        fgets(player_name[i], sizeof(player_name[i]), stdin); //get name
        putchar('\n');
    }

Is being skipped on the first loop, but on the rest of the loops it runs, any help as to why that happens? the entire file that snippet is from is attached at the bottom.
school.c

See the FAQ on correct ways to clean up the input stream after using say scanf()

Hint: it's not fflush(stdin)

Would that be the reason it wasn't working? I shouldn't have included the fflush()s as they were only put there to see if they would make it work, which they one.

edit: updated OP

> Would that be the reason it wasn't working?
Yes, exactly.
fflush(stdin) doesn't work on your system.

fflush() is only standardised for output/update streams only.