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gohel@csee.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel) wrote:
[snip]
>
>What is the best way to get rid of the '\n' from the input buffer after
>a scanf() statement?  In the same book on page 263 I've seen the following
>format used in an fscanf() format specifier:
>

Himanshu,
I would recommend the following:

  char  *pnl;
  char  inpBuf[MAXBUF];
  FILE  *strm;
  ...
  ...
  while( fgets(inpBuf,sizeof(inpBuf),strm) ) {
    ...
    if( (pnl=strchr(inpBuf,'\n')) )  /* truncate the newline */
      *pnl = '\000';
    ...
    sscanf( inpBuf,... );
    ...
  }

Yours, Geoff Houck