fgets is unsafe! So what’s the alternative?

fgets is often described as a “safe” C function - one you should use instead of gets or scanf.
But is it really safe?
The plain answer is: NO. You can very easily corrupt data by reading unintended characters from the command prompt using fgets, as I explain in this video.
In previous videos I’ve already shown that standard C line-reading functions are unsafe so if fgets is unsafe too, what should you use instead?
In this lesson, I explain the problems and suggest some solutions.
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