C Program to Accept Paragraph using scanf

C Program to Accept Paragraph using scanf: I f  you think that scanf does not accept paragraph then your are wrong,because here we learn a way from which we can insert paragraph with space.

C Program to Accept Paragraph using scanf

 

 #include<stdio.h>

 

int main() {

   char pgraph[400];

 

   printf("Enter Paragraph : ");

   scanf("%[^\t]s", pgraph);

 

   printf("Accepted Paragraph : %s", pgraph);

 

   return 0;

}

Note: Press Tab to Stop Accepting Characters

Output :

 Enter Paragraph :Geek Coderz is a blog which covers the stuff related to progr amming languages and tutorials. 

Accepted Paragraph : Geek Coderz is a blog which covers the stuff related to pr ogramming languages and tutorials. 

Explanation :

    scanf("%[^\t]s", pgraph);

1. Here scanf will accept Characters entered with spaces.
2. It also accepts the Words , new line characters .
3. %[^\t]s  represent that all characters are accepted except tab(t) , whenever t will encountered then the process of accepting characters will be terminated.

Drawbacks :

1. Paragraph Size cannot be estimated at Compile Time
2. It’s vulnerable to buffer overflows.

How to Specify Maximum Size to Avoid Overflow ?

// Accept only 100 character

 scanf("%10[^\t]s", pgraph);