As fflush(stdin); is wrong. Some one suggests using rewind(stdin) to eliminate input buffer and also clear error state of the stream. Is that right?
I used Dev-C++ to compile this code, and it really works. Is it right to use rewind(stdin); ?
As for as I know, rewind(fp) is equivalent to fseek(fp, 0L, SEEK_SET); clearerr(fp). So I guess this is another wrong thing to clear input buffer.
Last edited by Antigloss; 10-26-2006 at 07:56 AM.
It's recommended by Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/default...kb;en-us;41159
So I'm tempted to say it's probably the wrong thing to do
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Of course if stdin isn't a keyboard, you'd get "interesting" results.
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You can't seek on console streams, so I dare say it's a wrong thing to do, unless stdin has been redirected to a file. There is no ISO C way of finding out whether this has happened, though I believe there's a POSIX way.
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>Some one suggests using rewind(stdin) to eliminate input buffer and also clear error state of the stream. Is that right?
Hell no.
>Is it right to use rewind(stdin); ?
Calling rewind on stdin is perfectly legal. The behavior is erratic though, so it's not recommended in the general case.
My best code is written with the delete key.
