gets

Gets a string from stdin.

char * gets (char * string);

Required Header
<stdio.h>

Return Value

This function returns a string from stdin or NULL if an error or End Of File has been reached.

Parameters

string

  A pointer to the buffer which will contain the result

Remarks

The gets function reads stdin up until the next newline character and stores the result in string, replacing the newline with a null-terminator character.

Stream I/O Routines

See Also    fputc, fgetc, fgets, _fgetchar, fread, getc, getchar