Flushing stdin after every input - which approach is not buggy?
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Published on 2013-06-22T07:32:36Z
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c
While using scanf()
in C there is always the problem of extra input lying in the input buffer. So I was looking for a function that I call after every scanf call to remedy this problem. I used this, this, this and this to get these answers
//First approach
scanf("%*[^\n]\n");
//2ndapproach
scanf("%*[^\n]%*c");
//3rd approach
int c;
while((c = getchar()) != '\n' && c != EOF)
/* discard */ ;
All three are working as far as I could find by hit-and-trial and going by the references. But before using any of these in all of my codes I wanted to know whether any of these have any bugs?
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