From: eglebbk AT phys DOT uva DOT nl (Evert Glebbeek)
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Subject: Re: Newbie question about strings in C ..
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 16:14:12 GMT
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 From: dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
 On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:43:15 GMT

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>> I usually deal with this by simply setting the string size
>> redicilously large so it will never be overwritten in normal useage
>
>But what about abnormal usage?
I use one global string (called something like inbuf) for all my
input. I figure that one too-large-string-by-a-few-hundred-bytes
isn't going to cause my program to run out of memory.
>
>> (eg, a 256 byte string when reading a 2 digit number).
>
>So why not use fgets(buffer,256,stdin)?
Never used fgets(), so I never thought of it :)

Anyway, I'll use fgets() next time I want to write an input routine.
Thanks!

Evert Glebbeek