How do you allow spaces to be entered using scanf?

Question

Using the following code:

char *name = malloc(sizeof(char) + 256); 

printf(\"What is your name? \");
scanf(\"%s\", name);

printf(\"Hello %s. Nice to meet y         


        

Answer 1

getline()

Now part of POSIX, none-the-less.

It also takes care of the buffer allocation problem that you asked about earlier, though you have to take care of freeing the memory.