read length of string from stdin

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Published on 2010-05-29T10:56:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 11:12 UTC
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I want to take a string from stdin but I don't want a static array of fixed size

I know that scanf need something where save the stdin input, but I can't do something like this:

char string[10]
scanf("%s",string);

becouse I need to know before how long will be the string in order to allocate the right memory space.

Can you help me to resolve this problem?

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