Read a string with spaces

[CodingLover]

Hi all, I want to read a user input with spaces, say "Hello World". With scanf how can i do that. Because all the time after the space, I cannot read the input.

scanf("%[^\n]", name);
scanf("%s",&name);
fscanf(stdin, "%*s%99[^\n]", name);

None of the above solve my issue.

I appreciate your help all the time... CodingLover :)

[Graham Breach]

You can't do it with scanf - use gets[^] instead. Edit before someone else says it: of course gets isn't safe to use since you can't specify the buffer size, so use fgets[^] instead.

modified on Wednesday, September 7, 2011 2:51 PM

[_Superman_]

scanf("%[^\n]", name); works. If it does not, then check how name is declared. It should be something like char name[1024];

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[CodingLover]

I did exactly the same, but didn't work mate.

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[CodingLover]

Simply I tried the following, but it didn't work either

char test[1024];
printf("\nTest ");
gets(test);

I appreciate your help all the time... CodingLover :)

[_Superman_]

Run this and tell me what you get -

char name[1024];
scanf("%[^\n]", name);
printf("[%s]", name);

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Polymorphism in C

[CodingLover]

It simply print some garbage characters. Even in debug it'll not looking for the user input.

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[_Superman_]

That's strange. It works as expected for me. Are you running it from a console application? If you can give me more details like the environment that you're using and the type of program you're using, I could try to recreate the issue at my end.

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Polymorphism in C

[CodingLover]

Sorry for the late reply! Yes it was a console application. I did this on VS 2008. However when I use cin instead of scanf, works fine.

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[abhishek biradar]

Same code worked fine for me am also using vs2008