Can someone help or maybe tutor me for an hour on discord?

Hi, i'm new to this website. I'm studying electronics engeneering and my C programming exam is tomorrow, i've been studying 10+ hours a day but i still don't get the grasp of it, even though this is the second time im taking this subject, since i failed it last semester. My professor gave us a sample test that he claims if we can solve it, we will ace the exam, it's about programming a matrix calculator including multiplication, division, adding and subtracting, but for this and the exam we can only use the functions seen in class (stdio library, structs, arrays, creating our own libraries). Since the pandemic forced the university to do all classes in online format, i don't know any classmates that can help me, and i don't know what else to do but to ask for someone to tutor me for an hour in a forum.
I'll describe the sample test, can't really give you a copy since it's in spanish (i'm pretty decent at speaking english so i don't think that will be a problem):
-Program must not have stdio functions in the main file, every function and variable must be in .c or .h external libraries.
-The variable types that you use are not to be evaluated, if it works, it's fine.
1)Program asks what operation you want to do.
2)Program asks for the first line of the first matrix, then the next one and so on until user enters $ character, then the same for the second matrix.
3)Program checks if the matrixes dimensions are compatible for the operation, if they are, the program calculates the result and prints it, then it closes. If they aren't program prints an error message and closes.

I'm currently striving to get past point 2 since i can't manage to get an entire line of the matrix from a single user input.

Of course every tip is welcome, thanks for reading.

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Originally Posted by Paolitros

I'm currently striving to get past point 2 since i can't manage to get an entire line of the matrix from a single user input.

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What is your idea and what have you tried?

Declared two int arrays sized [20][20] for the matrixes in the .h file, and i'm trying to make a for loop in a external .c library function to get the multiple numbers from a single scanf, i just learnt that you can get multiple inputs doing this scanf("%i %i %i", num1, num2, num3), but i don't think that it will help since the user must be able to input as many numbers as it wants (i figured a max of 20 would cover it). Also the ammount of time i've spent studying has worn me out so i'm not really progressing much and i'm starting to make obvious mistakes. This is my last failed experiment:

Code:

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void ingresarMatriz1()
{
  int numDato = 0;
  int numFila = 0;
  for (numFila = 0; numFila < 20; numFila++) {
    printf
        ("Ingrese fila %i para primera matriz, datos separados por espacios\n",
        numFila + 1);
    for (numDato = 0; numDato < 20; numDato++) {
      scanf("%i", &Matriz1[numFila][numDato]);
      if (Matriz1[numFila][numDato] == '$') {
        break;
      }
    }
    while (getchar() != '\n');
    for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
      printf("%i ", Matriz1[numFila]);
    }
  }
}

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Update: this worked to get the matrix lines in one input, but having to search for the user inputing $ to break using getchar() eats away the first digit of each number, is there a way to use getchar() without erasing anything from the buffer?

Code:

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for (int dato = 0; dato < 400; dato++) {

  scanf("%i", &Matriz1[fila][dato]);
  if (getchar() == '\n') {
    fila++;
  }
  if (getchar() == '$') {
    break;
  }
}

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> 2)Program asks for the first line of the first matrix, then the next one and so on until user enters $ character, then the same for the second matrix.
How do you know the dimensions of the matrix?

If the user types in 12 numbers say, then you can have choices:
1x12
2x6
3x4
4x3
6x2
12x1

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Originally Posted by Salem

How do you know the dimensions of the matrix?

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The user enters the entries row by row, so that is easy to determine. Just need a sanity check to ensure that the rows have the same number of entries.

So what's with the "until user enters $ character" bit all about then?

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Originally Posted by Salem

So what's with the "until user enters $ character" bit all about then?

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A way to determine the last row since the dimensions aren't given in advance, and there's a second matrix to input so you cannot just make use of an EOF condition.