Scanf

very often we have encountered problems where a code fragment like
for(i=0;i<3;i++)> simple... the stray '/n' escape sequence remains in the input stream and is taken by the second scanf. One of the ways is to use a getc() function before second scanf, but not really good one other solution is to use fgets from stdin ... this is a nice solution as it takes the whole string from the input stream including '\n' note that we can't simply flush the input stream by fflush(stdin) as its behaviour on input stream is undefined... we can use it to flush the output stream..