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FireHound
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simple C question 2004-11-05 14:43:59 Reply

What does:
scanf("%*[^\n]") stand for...
some kind of flushing?
or... does it kick everything out of the imput buffer except for the newline?
hmm...
not quite sure

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Response to simple C question 2004-11-05 23:36:30 Reply

I'm not great at C code so I can't really comment on what it does. Just flop it into your code though and see what it does.

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Response to simple C question 2004-11-05 23:38:24 Reply
At 11/5/04 02:43 PM, FireHound wrote: What does:
scanf("%*[^\n]") stand for...

Basically, it just skips all characters until the newline.