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From: Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>
Subject: Re: buggy_double_use_of _scanf
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:59:12 +0100
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simon wrote:

> I have observe a strange scanf behaviour...
> when using two successive scanf... the second receive a return character
> 
> for example :
> 
> int a;
> char b;
> 
> scanf ("%d", &a);
> fflush (stdin);
> scanf ("%c", &b);
> fprintf (stdout, "a : %d\nb : %c\n", a, b);
> 
> what's the problem ?

What makes you think that there is a problem?

What's the input? If it's a decimal number followed by newline, the
first scanf() will return the parsed number, the second will return
the newline.

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Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>