Monday, 27 February 2006 21:16 samaye tvayaa likhitam: > And scanf() isn't "unsafe"; it just doesn't do what you want in your > particular application. There are plenty of situations where scanf() > does the right thing and getline() + sscanf() doesn't; e.g.: OK, so scanf does have its own applications. I would like to place on record that I used fgets and sscanf and the problem I was experiencing was totally removed. -- Tux #395953 resides at http://samvit.org playing with KDE 3.51 on SUSE Linux 10.0 $ date [] CCE +2006-02-28 W09-2 UTC+0530 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html