how do I clear stdin buffer

[Chris Torek]

In article <43310 at cup.portal.com> tms at cup.portal.com
(Taos Mountain Software) writes:
>The stdio function "scanf" works great for input from datafiles, but I
>always run into problems when doing interactive tty I/O on Unix systems.

Avoid scanf.  sscanf() is OK; scanf() is not.  There may be exceptions
to this rule, but I have found none yet.

>... what I'm interested in is a function like fflush that deals with
>input streams.

POSIX says that fflush wipes out pending input.  4.4BSD will probably
have fpurge().  Neither is portable to all ANSI C systems.
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