I was wondering if there's a way to see if there is anything in the buffer or not. The reason I ask is that I've noticed that if you have a line in your program to clear the buffer, and the user typed more than the string could hold, so that it is actually neccessary to clear the buffer, then it works great. But if your user doesn't overflow the string, then you try to clear the buffer, the user will have to hit ENTER to get past it, and I'm trying to fix this. Thanks
There is no standard way to do what you're asking.
This is why most experienced programmers avoid the use of scanf(). To get around the problem you can fgets() the input and then use sscanf() on the buffer that fgets() fills in for you.
If you understand what you're doing, you're not learning anything.
Exactly, you always know what the stream state is when using fgets(). If newlines are really that important to you, it's easy (say strchr) to search the buffer for a newline, and take whatever action you see fit depending on whether you find one or not.
