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From:	"George Foot" <george DOT foot AT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
To:	"Ilari Kaartinen" <ililka AT mantta DOT fi>
Date:	Thu, 8 Apr 1999 19:11:12 +0000
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Subject:	Re: better than gets()?
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On  8 Apr 99 at 14:13, Ilari Kaartinen wrote:

> gets() crashes whole program if the string taken is longer than the
> buffer. Better func' for taking th full *string*.

If you use `fgets', you can specify not just the buffer to 
store the data in, but also the size of the buffer and the 
stream to read from (`gets' reads from `stdin').

-- 
George

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