Date: Thu, 1 Sep 94 12:25:54 -0400
From: dj AT cmdns6 DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Cc: ronis AT onsager DOT chem DOT mcgill DOT ca, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: bug in scanf()

> get past the illegal input with scanf("%s", junk) where
> junk[] is a character array.

I recommend scanf("%*[^\n]\n");, which purges up to the next newline
without storing it anywhere.