Help with scanf and strings

Im currently in the process of making a programme that will read an input and then tell the user how many vowels the string has in it.
I have got it working 100% with gets code but i dont want to use that code, i want to use a scanf to get the user to input a string.

Below is the code i currently have:

Code:

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{ char str[100];

  printf("Please type a line of text:\n");
  scanf("%s",str);
}

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The code works perfectly with one word, but as you all most probably know scanf reads up to the first space, so when i put in something like, hello hello hello, it comes up saying 2 vowels have been found 3 times. Obviously i dont want this i want it to say 6 vowels have been found.

Is there anyway i can make the scanf read past the spaces?

Any help will be greatly appreciated :D

scanf is not capable of receiving multi-word strings. To make it receive multi-word strings you can use it like this:

Code:

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scanf("%[^\n]s",str); //will keep receiving chars until a \n is encountered.

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But it'll be always be better to use fgets to read a string.

thanks very much :)

and yeah i know, just get use to the amount of different ways you can do things, and how certain ways make it ALOT more painful that others lol