learning c

[Andrew Koenig]

In article <584 at greens.UUCP>, matthew at sunpix.UUCP ( Sun NCAA) writes:

>     I know your problem well.  What you are looking for is a 'getch()' or
> 'getche()' function in place of the 'getchar()' function.  Barring that try

> c = getchar();
> fflush(stdin);

Why depend so intimately on the detailed behavior of the
C run-time library?  Not all implementations support
fflush(stdin).  The following is much more portable:

	c = getchar();
	if (c != '\n')
		while (getchar() != '\n')
			;
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				--Andrew Koenig
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