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gets()
Reads characters from stdin and stores them as a string into str until a newline character ('\n') or the End-of-File is reached.
The ending newline character ('\n') is not included in the string.
getchar()
Returns the next character from the standard input (stdin).
It is equivalent to getc with stdin as its argument. === ===
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Judybasically getchar is for inputting a single character and it returns a value (character)
and scanf is used for many values like int,float etc
besides that getchar is an unformatted function maens it does not make use of format specifiers where as scanf is a formatted function.
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Will blank spaces be accepted in getchar?
yes
How is the getchar function used in a C program?
The getchar() is used in 'C' programming language because it can read the character from the Standard input(i.e..from the user keyboard),and converts in to the ASCII value.
How Can We Solve The Limitation Of Getchar And Scan Function?
Getchar:-Reading a single character can be done by using the function getchar.Syntax:- variable_name = getchar ( );Variable_name is a valid 'c' name that has been declared as char type. When this statement is encountered, the computer waits until a key is pressed and then assigns this character as a value to getchar function. Since getchar is used on the right hand side of an assignment statement, the character value of getchar is in turn assigned to the variable_name on the left. The getchar function may be called successively to read the characters contained in a line of text. Getchar accepts space character.Scanf ("control strings",arg1, arg2, ………… argn);The control string specifies the field format in which the data is to be entered and the arguments arg 1, arg 2, arg n specify the address of locations where the data is stored. Scanf does not accept space character.
How do you read a character from the keyboard and will store it in the variable?
Use the scanf() function from the C standard library.
Which function enables to receive single character input?
getchar();
