Name

gets function — Reads a string unsafely

Synopsis

char* gets(char* s)

The gets function reads a line of text (up to and including a newline) into the string s.

Warning

There is no way to limit the input to the size of s, so you should never call gets. Use fgets instead.

See Also

fgets function, getchar macro

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