fgets from stdin problems [C]

Question

I\'m writing a program that works with files. I need to be able to input data as structures, and eventually read it out. The problem i have at the moment is with this code:<

Answer 1

The newline is still in stdin from a prior call to a function that didn't read a newline from input. Clear stdin by reading until you've read out the newline -- not by flushing stdin as others have suggested.

EDIT: Thanks Alok, for the correction!