Module 10 · Strings
Reading Strings Safely: fgets, and Why gets Was Removed
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Maria prints labels for her shop, Maria General Store. Her program reads the name with scanf("%s"), as Module 3 taught, and every label says Maria. The other two words are not lost: they wait in the input. This lesson reads the whole name, and never writes past the end of an array.
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What is inside Reading Strings Safely: fgets, and Why gets Was Removed
- %s reads one word, and the rest waits
- A width keeps %s inside its array
- fgets reads a whole line, newline included
- Removing the newline, only when it is there
- Reading line after line until fgets returns NULL
- A number, then a line: the leftover newline
- gets, the function C11 removed