From:	"Donn Mielcarek" <donn AT srl DOT radix DOT net_nospam>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Scanf function
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 1997 13:38:40 -0400
Organization:	Systems Research Labs
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Marsel wrote in message <62fp85$nq4$1 AT power DOT ci DOT uv DOT es>...
> Hi djgpp users,
>
> I have writen this code
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>main()
>{
> char c;
> int n;
> printf("Write an integer: ");
> scanf("%d",&n);
> printf("Write a character: ");
> scanf("%c",&c);
> printf ("The integer is: %d and the character is: %d \n",n,c);
> }
>
>Why the secong scanf function does not wait until the caracter is
introduced
>?. the c variable always contain the caracter \010


This one always gets new C programmers.  When you typed in the
integer, you probably also pressed the return key (i.e. newline).   You
need to take care of reading that.  Another scanf in there will do it:
    int newline;
    scanf("%d",&n);
    scanf("%c",&newline);

   etc...

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Donn Mielcarek                                      donn AT srl DOT radix DOT net
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