From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: is this a bug?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:06:41 -0500
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I'm not sure, but probably you need '\n' in scanf().

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"Michael Ahumibe" <M DOT Ahumibe AT btinternet DOT com> wrote in message
news:99oo0k$gr7$1 AT neptunium DOT btinternet DOT com...
> Hi
>
> The following program should ask for a character to be input near the end
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main()
> {
>  char string[20];
>  unsigned int number;
>  char test;
>
>  printf("Enter a string: ");
>  scanf("%s", &string);
>
>  printf("Enter a number: ");
>  scanf("%u", &number);
>
>  printf("Enter a character: ");
>  scanf("%c", &test);
>
>
>  printf("%s %u %c",string,number,test);
>
>  return 0;
> }
>
> I compile the code and run it. The line containing scanf("%c", &test); is
> skipt!! can someone tell me the exact reason for this?
>
>