Difference between fgets and fscanf?

The function fgets read until a newline (and also stores it). fscanf with the %s specifier reads until any blank space and doesn’t store it…

As a side note, you’re not specifying the size of the buffer in scanf and it’s unsafe. Try:

fscanf(ptr, "%9s", str)

Related Posts:

  1. Difference between scanf() and fgets()
  2. How to do scanf for single char in C
  3. How do you allow spaces to be entered using scanf?
  4. Reading in double values with scanf in c
  5. Why is the gets function so dangerous that it should not be used?
  6. Why do I get an assertion failure?
  7. How to read from stdin with fgets()?
  8. Going through a text file line by line in C
  9. Reading a string with scanf
  10. Going through a text file line by line in C
  11. waitpid, wnohang, wuntraced. How do I use these
  12. How to initialize array to 0 in C?
  13. Sign extend a nine-bit number in C
  14. Warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
  15. Break statement not within loop or switch in C
  16. How to properly malloc for array of struct in C
  17. Cache Simulator in C
  18. C: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘;’ token
  19. Where is the C auto keyword used?
  20. make: Nothing to be done for `all’
  21. Data argument not used by format strings in C
  22. execv vs execvp, why just one of them require the exact file’s path?
  23. difference between and
  24. expected expression before ‘{‘ token
  25. Setting std=c99 flag in GCC
  26. C Vector/ArrayList/LinkedList
  27. Convert char array to a int number in C
  28. Bind failed: Address already in use
  29. Warning/error “function declaration isn’t a prototype”
  30. What is the difference between %f and %lf in C?
  31. Returning an array using C
  32. warning: initializer element is not computable at load time
  33. What is stdin in C language?
  34. How to prevent multiple definitions in C?
  35. How to pass 2D array (matrix) in a function in C?
  36. error: ‘for’ loop initial declarations are only allowed in C99 mode [duplicate]
  37. How can you print multiple variables inside a string using printf?
  38. c – warning: implicit declaration of function ‘printf’
  39. Flushing buffers in C
  40. What are 0x01 and 0x80 representative of in C bitwise operations?
  41. How to make parent wait for all child processes to finish?
  42. Undefined Reference issues using Semaphores
  43. What is time(NULL) in C?
  44. Use of cudamalloc(). Why the double pointer?
  45. C dynamically growing array
  46. Why should we check WIFEXITED after wait in order to kill child processes in Linux system call?
  47. How to compile makefile using MinGW?
  48. Mapping a numeric range onto another
  49. Why are hexadecimal numbers prefixed with 0x?
  50. Portable way to check if directory exists [Windows/Linux, C]
  51. OpenGL — GL_LINE_LOOP —
  52. too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
  53. How to use EOF to run through a text file in C?
  54. Incorrect checksum for freed object on malloc
  55. Valgrind complains with “Invalid write of size 8”
  56. Scanning Multiple inputs from one line using scanf
  57. Removing trailing newline character from fgets() input
  58. Expression must be a pointer to a complete object type using simple pointer arithmetic
  59. How to copy a char array in C?
  60. Simple way to check if a string contains another string in C?
  61. What does “request for member ‘*******’ in something not a structure or union” mean?
  62. cast to pointer from integer of different size, pthread code
  63. Invalid type argument of unary ‘*’ (have ‘int’) Error in C
  64. Segmentation fault (core dumped) due to fgets – I think
  65. Why do I get “cast from pointer to integer of different size” error?
  66. C subscripted value is neither array nor pointer nor vector when assigning an array element value
  67. What does “request for member ‘*******’ in something not a structure or union” mean?
  68. Unknown ending signal when using debugger gdb
  69. Valgrind: invalid read of size 4 -> sigsegv, works fine without valgrind and in visual studio
  70. error: too few arguments to function `printDay’ (C language)
  71. How to convert integer to char in C?
  72. Is there a good Valgrind substitute for Windows?
  73. Difference between sizeof(char) and sizeof(char *)
  74. Where to find the complete definition of off_t type?
  75. struct has no member named
  76. Difference between “move” and “li” in MIPS assembly language
  77. printf not printing to screen
  78. Initializing array of structures
  79. Still Reachable Leak detected by Valgrind
  80. How to empty a char array?
  81. Assembly x86 – “leave” Instruction
  82. What is the difference between array and enum in C ?
  83. Undefined reference to main – collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
  84. How can one see content of stack with GDB?
  85. What is signed integer overflow?
  86. What does the term “empty loop” refer to exactly in C and C++?
  87. When to use const char * and when to use const char []
  88. Is there a way to have printf() properly print out an array (of floats, say)?
  89. What do numbers using 0x notation mean?
  90. What integer hash function are good that accepts an integer hash key?
  91. Can I create an Array of Char pointers in C?
  92. Proper way to empty a C-String
  93. Does stack grow upward or downward?
  94. Convert Little Endian to Big Endian
  95. malloc(): memory corruption
  96. Excess elements of scalar initializer for pointer to array of ints
  97. X86 assembly – Handling the IDIV instruction
  98. error C2371: ‘functionname’ redefinition: different basic types
  99. How does one represent the empty char?
  100. Pause screen at program completion in C

Leave a Comment

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)