Message-ID: <370BB323.E645FC7C@cityweb.de> From: David Renz X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [de] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP-Problem References: <37026DF6 DOT BCAA8E59 AT cityweb DOT de> <37090A8C DOT 89F098AA AT cityweb DOT de> <199904052126 DOT RAA09813 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:33:55 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.52.155.162 X-Trace: news1.cityweb.de 923515344 62.52.155.162 (Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:02:24 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:02:24 MET DST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie schrieb: > > You have two problems. > > 1. fflush(stdin) does absolutely nothing in DJGPP (nor should it). > Using gets() is the right thing to do there. > > 2. The *first* scanf doesn't read the whole line - it leaves a bit > behind, which is read as the first line in your loop. I recommend > doing something like this: > > char buf[100]; > fgets(buf, 100, stdin); > sscanf(buf, "%d", &z); > > Don't use gets because it has no way of stopping you from overflowing > your buffer. > Thank you for your hint, i was using TurboC for a long time, so i didn't know that. In TurboC you MUST do fflush(stdin) before you can use gets, because the buffer must be empty(How can you empty the buffer in DJGPP?). P.S.: I made a typing error. I wrote scanf(text[i]), but I wanted to write scanf("%s", text[i]). Greetings, David