Program doesn't execute gets() after scanf(), even using fflush(stdin)

Question

After wasting too much time searching why my program doesn\'t execute gets() after using scanf(), I found a solution which is to use fflush(stdin) after scanf() to enable ge

Answer 1

If flushing std doesn't work, then try reading in the extra characters and discarding, as suggested here.

This will work:

#include 
#include 

int main(){
    char nombre[10];
    char mensaje[80];
    int c;

    printf("Type your name:\n");
    scanf("%9s", nombre);

    while((c= getchar()) != '\n' && c != EOF)
            /* discard */ ;

    printf("Now, type a message:\n");
    gets(mensaje);

    printf("%s:%s",nombre,mensaje);
    return 0;
}