From: "Martin Ambuhl" <mambuhl AT tiac DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gets
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 01:21:57 -0400
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Peleg79593 wrote in message
<1998052404332600 DOT AAA20938 AT ladder03 DOT news DOT aol DOT com>...
:Okay, so I want to use
:
:gets(x);
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No, you don't.
Use fgets(x, sizeof x, stdin); /* for staticly allocated x */
 or with the size_t argument otherwise specified.
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:
:instead of scanf in a bunch of input functions. So I replace all the scanfs.
:But, then, the program just skips past the gets(x) without accepting any
input
:as though there were something still in the buffer.  So I add fflush(stdin)
========
Don't invoke undefined behavior.  fflush is defined for output streams,
not input files, even in GCC.
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:before and after all of my buffered inputs.  Same problem.  So, then, I put:
:
:gets(trash);
:
:before every
:
:gets(x);
:
:and, voila, it works.  What gives here?  Am I doing something wrong, or is
this
:an acceptable way to clear the buffer?
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Post the real code.  Your description makes it sound like
you have misdiagnosed the problem.
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