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Re: It's right in front of me, I know it!

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Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> writes:
> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:

>> Don’t use scanf if you want read whole lines, that’s not what it’s
>> designed for.
>
> Thanks.  I *do* see the "Room:" prompt, so I expect it's being flush()'d 
> at the same time as the following prompt.

Yes.

> I ended up using repeated calls to getchar(). :-/ I can't imagine
> there's a less efficient way to do it, but this works and it's not
> intended for long-term use.

If you want an integer entered on a line, use fgets and then read the
integer from the buffer, with with strtol or sscanf.

-- 
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/

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It's right in front of me, I know it! Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2013-07-01 22:05 -0600
  Re: It's right in front of me, I know it! Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-07-02 10:27 +0100
    Re: It's right in front of me, I know it! Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2013-07-02 08:53 -0600
      Re: It's right in front of me, I know it! Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-07-02 15:56 +0100
        Re: It's right in front of me, I know it! Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2013-07-02 21:46 -0600

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