retiring gets(3)
Aled Morris
awm at gould.doc.ic.ac.uk
Mon Nov 14 06:32:37 AEST 1988
I was going to suggest the following as a replacement for "gets":
#define gets(buf) fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)
since all the examples I've seen of "gets" in use have been:
char buf[10];
...
gets(buf);
But of course it won't work, (a) gets drops the newline at the end, fgets
keeps it, and (b) maybe someone, has written:
char *buf;
buf = malloc(10);
gets(buf);
(although the #define would be fine in this case, it would read only 4
characters :-)
I guess there isn't an easy answer :-( (but you didn't need me to tell you
that)
Aled Morris
systems programmer
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