How to read from stdin with fgets()?

Question

I\'ve written the following code to read a line from a terminal window, the problem is the code gets stuck in an infinite loop. The line/sentence is of undefined length, th

Answer 1

here a concatenation solution:

#include 
#include 
#include 
#define BUFFERSIZE 10

int main() {
  char *text = calloc(1,1), buffer[BUFFERSIZE];
  printf("Enter a message: \n");
  while( fgets(buffer, BUFFERSIZE , stdin) ) /* break with ^D or ^Z */
  {
    text = realloc( text, strlen(text)+1+strlen(buffer) );
    if( !text ) ... /* error handling */
    strcat( text, buffer ); /* note a '\n' is appended here everytime */
    printf("%s\n", buffer);
  }
  printf("\ntext:\n%s",text);
  return 0;
}