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Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 19:37:52 +0000
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Scanf function
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> John's analysis is very accurate.  Therefore, a simple solution is to
> change the format of the second `scanf', so it does skip whitespace:
> 
>   printf("Write a character: ");
>   scanf(" %c",&c);

Oh, gods yes.  Thank you, Eli - I totally forgot about that, since I
seldom use scanf() in my own programs.

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