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user6734995
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Reputation:

Reading user input and stop on empty string

I want to read some user input and do something with each input. I do that using this code:

char c;
while(1){
    printf("input");
    c = scanf ( "%s", &c ) ;
}

This works fine . But I need it to accept even an empty input. But it just continues to next line and expects an not-empty input. How could I do that?

Current situation:

input:asdf
input:b
input:c
input:d
input:e
input:

fjhkjh

Expected :

input:asdf
input:b
input:c
input:d
input:e
input:blabla
input:f
input:
input:

Just how the cmd console works like... UPDATE: I don't read only one single charcater, that was an example

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1481

Answers (4)

Sujan Poudel
Sujan Poudel

Reputation: 853

First you must have to use getchar(); or %c in scanf for a single character then you can use a if for test which is the input character 

char c;
while(1)
{
 c=getchar();
 if(c==' ')
  break();
}

This is only for single character input.

Upvotes: 0

Sourav Ghosh
Sourav Ghosh

Reputation: 134316

First of all, in your code,

  scanf ( "%s", &c ) ;

invokes undefined behavior. , as you cannot fit an incoming string inside a char.

That said, %s skips the leading white-spaces and reads the non-white-spaces up to the immediate white-space and ignores the last white-space, so you cannot read only white-spaces using %s.

Quoting C11, chapter §7.21.6.2, fscanf(), (emphasis mine)

s Matches a sequence of non-white-space characters.

If no l length modifier is present, the corresponding argument shall be a pointer to the initial element of a character array large enough to accept the sequence and a terminating null character, which will be added automatically.

So, we can clearly see, c is no sufficient to hold even a single char input, either, it will be out of bound access to store the terminating null.

You seem to be in need to getchar() or similar.

Upvotes: 0

Bivek
Bivek

Reputation: 1398

First of all You shouldn't use %s to store input in a single character as %s is for string of characters terminated by null character(\0). Don't use & with %s in scanf(). To store a single character make use of: 

scanf("%c",&c);

or

c = getchar();

Upvotes: 1

Sathish
Sathish

Reputation: 417

It doesn't internally work like that, you have declared it as single char but you have used %s which is a char array. the char you get as input are stored as null values.. every character you gave a b c d e are taken as null.. if you have doubt, add a printf("%s",c); below the scanf();

Upvotes: 0

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