char * fgets ( char * str, int num, FILE * stream ); char* str is the ptr to where my input will be stored. num is the max number of character to be read. but what is FILE *stream? If I am just …

Jul 10, 2015 · And the difference between gets/scanf and fgets is that gets(); and scanf(); only scan until the first space ' ' while fgets(); scans the whole input. (but be sure to clean the buffer …

I've written the following code to read a line from a terminal window, the problem is the code gets stuck in an infinite loop. The line/sentence is of undefined length, therefore I plan to read it...

Jan 28, 2017 · 1 I'm new at programming so there are some basics and maybe common sense that I don't know. I have a question about how to use fgets right. Based on the explanation of …

fgets(string,100,fp) Now, when I put every string, in the last string I am getting repetition and some more ambiguities (like something else also gets printed say 123 or so).

Aug 9, 2009 · I want to know what is the difference between fgets() and scanf(). I am using C as my platform.

I thought the fgets function stops when it encounters a \0 or \n; why does this manual page suggest a null byte is "dangerous" when fgets should handle the input properly? Furthermore, …

Mar 5, 2014 · The above is undefined if fgets() fails, but exchange printf() for something that has a well-defined handling of NULL and you see my point. And it wouldn't make sense for fgetc() to …

Feb 9, 2015 · The problematic difference between gets and fgets is that gets removes the trailing '\n' from an input line but fgets keeps it. This means an 'empty' line returned by fgets will …

Feb 23, 2017 · 2 The fgets function reads at most one less than the number of characters specified by n from the stream pointed to by stream into the array pointed to by s. No …