convert printf / structure

[Max]

What is the difference between fgets, getline and sscanf

and why getline and sscanf are usually used together?

[quzah]

The difference is, 'getline' is non ANSI, and 'fgets' is an ANSI standard function.
This sounds like homework to me, so how about you read the following. It'll be educational:

fgets is your friend.

gets should never be used. Ever.

sscanf is handy.

Quzah.

[Max]

Thanks Quzah....by the way it is not homework...I just wanted to know the relationship.....I was always confused....but why do we need sometime to use getline followed by sscanf??

[Prelude]

>but why do we need sometime to use getline followed by sscanf??
I don't know of any commonly used getline outside of C++, but fgets and sscanf is used a great deal because it is safer to read a line from input and then parse it yourself instead of hoping that it is formatted correctly for scanf.

-Prelude