How to do scanf for single char in C

The %c conversion specifier won’t automatically skip any leading whitespace, so if there’s a stray newline in the input stream (from a previous entry, for example) the scanf call will consume it immediately.

One way around the problem is to put a blank space before the conversion specifier in the format string:

scanf(" %c", &c);

The blank in the format string tells scanf to skip leading whitespace, and the first non-whitespace character will be read with the %c conversion specifier.

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