--- In [email protected], "Brett McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> you need to allocate memory for char
> *input. And as I said before, buf[] is unnecessary. Create a #define
> like BUFSZ 10 and use that to allocate the memory using malloc, and
> remember your buffer needs to be BUFSZ + 1 to hold the terminating
> '\0'.
Just wondering why you need to use malloc()? Eg.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAX_INPUT_SZ 10
int main(void)
{
char buf[MAX_INPUT_SZ + 2]; /* allow for \n and \0 */
if (!fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin))
{
printf("input error\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* NB. \n added by fgets so no need for it here. */
printf("you entered: %s", buf);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
Doesn't do any verification though...
John
