Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:11:05 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dominique Micollet <dmicolet AT u-bourgogne DOT fr>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fflush(stdin) : does it works ?
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On 29 May 1996, Dominique Micollet wrote:

> The %[^\n] allows to catch any character excepted the new line and then to
> get strings with blanks, tabs and so on inside them.
> The fflush(stdin) is there to trash the new line, else the next scanf of a
> string does not works.
> This works fine with many compilers (RS6000, SUN, DEC, PC)

ANSI C Standard says (para 7.9.5.2) that `fflush' is only defined for
output streams; otherwise what `fflush' does is undefined.  You shouldn't
use `fflush' at all for an input stream.  To skip the newline, use `fgets'
(or just `getc' if you know there is only a single newline).