C Program to Accept Paragraph using scanf?

Answer 1

Check the following program to see how newline character can be accepted in the scanf

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
  char para[100];
  printf("Enter Paragraph : ");
  scanf("%[^t]",para);
  printf("%s",para);
}

Enter Paragraph :

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scanf("%[^t]",para); Here scanf will accept characters entered with spaces. It also accepts the Words , new line characters. [^t] represent that all characters are accepted except tab(t) , whenever tab is encountered then the process of accepting characters will be terminated.

Drawbacks :
Paragraph Size cannot be estimated at Compile Time and vulnerable to buffer overflows.

How to Specify Maximum Size to Avoid Overflow ?

// Accepts only 100 Characters
scanf("%100[^t]",para);