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Using getchar() instead of fgets or scanf

Posted by Hasan on 1999-09-28

It has been told always that usage of fgets or scanf is not an efficient way
to read keyboard input streams. I thought about using the following code but
even though it complies ok, it does not run? can anyone help? or anyother
suggestions instead of this code...?

thx


#include <stdio.h>
void main()
{
 char c;
   int i=0;

   printf("please enter the name");
   for (c=getchar();c!='\n';c=getchar())
   {
    i+=1;
   }
   printf("your name is %s and has %d characters",c,i);
}

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