From: bowman AT erehwon DOT foo (bowman)
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Subject: Re: Newbie question about strings in C ..
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Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk AT phys DOT uva DOT nl> wrote:
>
>You can't allocate a string on the fly using a standard library
>function. Also, if you use scanf() or gets(), you can't specify how
>large the string you've allocated is, so there's no way to keep your
>user from entering characters until he overflows your string. I

fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin);