How to use scanf with fgets

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Thank you so much, I was so confused on why my fgets function was not executing, but worked completely fine when I moved it at the very start of my main function. Now I know😂

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It's really sad that C is such an old language and yet still they didn't solved this problem. Thanks for another well explained video.

[@CodeVault]

Old languages come with a lot of problems behind the scene. Especially when it comes to common functions such as scanf. If you "fix" this issue in a new version of C, who knows how many other pieces of old code rely on this exact functionality that we think is broken. C and C++ for that matter have always been backwards compatible and these are the kind of issues that remain due to that. It's a similar issue (but much larger) with x86 assembly

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[@jelsonrodrigues]

Is possible to use "%d%*c" on scanf format specifier. That will read the number (%d part) and the " ", then will ignore the " " (the * character ignores the matching case and the "c" means a character), this way you dont have to make another function call (fgetc(stdin)) and also use one less line.

[@CodeVault]

Yea, sure... That's a nice way of getting around this issue with scanf!

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That doesn't work with string inputs though, only integers

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[@towtruckn]

Thanks for the great video. It seems all the input functions ie. getchar(), scanf() getc() etc... use the same input buffer and is why the problem occurs ie. when characters remain in the buffer they are recognized as user input by the next call to scanf() and is the reason they are skipped. In the video was used fgetc() to clear the newline; however, trying getchar() it seems to do the same job.

[@CodeVault]

Yeah, there are many similar functions to fgetc(). There are so many that there's actually a video regarding this: code-vault.net/lesson/t1rx0xlx2e:1603733525238

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When I use debian, pointing fgets to /dev/urandom file descriptor would cause kernel panic. Seems like it fixed on newer kernel. I use arch now btw

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Nice work! Your tutorials have given me inspiration. Do you think that scanf(“%[^ ]s”, message); have a place here?

[@CodeVault]

I always have issues with that scanf. But yes, you could use that "%[^ ]s" format in place of the scanf in the video and it should also work fine. Although... I really suggest you just use fgets at that point

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[@longangthanh7857]

How about using fflush(stdin); after each use scanf or fgets, v.v... . I think it's more effectively

[@CodeVault]

That would also work, yes. Although it is regarded as undefined behavior: stackoverflow.com/questions/2979209/using-fflushstdin

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Sir, you are great. I searched for this solution for quite some time nothing worked, but fgetc(stdin) did the trick easily!

[@parrotparrot1948]

Hmmmm I got a question here, why don't you use rewind (stdin) :0

[@CodeVault]

Because you can't seek on console streams (such as stdin) and, technically, it might result in undefined behaviour as it's not specified in standards. Although, yes, that works

[@neon7874]

why not use fflush(stdin); u could clear the buffer too.

[@CodeVault]

fflush(stdin) is not standard, that's why it's not recommended to use it. You can read more on this by others more experienced: stackoverflow.com/questions/2979209/using-fflushstdin

[@marcusmanmarcus]

Thanks a lot! How do i detect EOF?:)

[@CodeVault]

The return value is dependent on whether or not you've hit EOF: www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstdio/fgets/ Or you can just check with feof

[@longh]

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[@hemantsaini1713]

what if i use gets() in place of fgets() ......?

[@wailfulchunk7108]

can we do the same with gets?

[@CodeVault]

Yes, but gets is vulnerable: code-vault.net/lesson/q2v3wz26zw:1603733525494

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how do you make to run the program run in terminal on vscode using debug?

[@CodeVault]

There are a couple videos regarding vscode here: code-vault.net/lesson/4wy66ezt7u:1610303902122

[@huytan7205]

can we use fgets to read stdin line by line?

[@CodeVault]

Yes, and it's recommended you actually use it in place of scanf

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[@gardalson3288]

Hi guys, I"m just a newbee when it comes to c howveer when i use fgets() it ommits the first character of my code and prints outn the rest can some one explain or provide resources for me to understand how this works.. Thankyou: char school[30]; printf("enter schools name"); fgets(school, 30, stdin);

[@CodeVault]

I tested the code and it works just fine. What do you mean by "it omits the first character"? Can you give me an example and the code you used to test this?

[@gardalson3288]

​@@CodeVault​sure char school[80]; printf("Enter the high school you went to: "); fgets(school, sizeof(school), stdin ); printf("the schools is %s",school) oooh sorry, i kind forgot to add the name of the variable in my printf statement

[@CodeVault]

Yeah, seems to be working fine. You're using fgets correctly

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