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[scan]

is there a way to read an input string from the user that will include the spaces?

 

[bousozoku]

Research the fgets() function.

 

[ChrisA]

is there a way to read an input string from the user that will include the spaces?

What's the context here? A command line program reading from stdin? Or is this some graphial interfacewhere you've put up a dialog box. Or is this a cgibin program running off a web server? You need to define the problem.

For starts read "man stdio" and then read the "see also" subjects at the bottom of the page.

That said, when I read user input that a user is typing, I always like to use the "readline" library. Users kind of expect this functionality now days..