std::gets

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Defined in header <cstdio>
char *gets( char *str );

Reads stdin into given character string until a newline character is found or end-of-file occurs.

Contents 1 Parameters 2 Return value 3 Notes 4 See also

[edit] Parameters

str

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character string to be written

[edit] Return value

str on success, NULL otherwise

[edit] Notes

The bounds checking is not performed therefore this function is extremely vulnerable to buffer-overflow attacks. Use fgets() instead.

[edit] See also

scanf fscanf sscanf	reads formatted input from stdin, a file stream or a buffer (function)
fgets	gets a character string from a file stream (function)
fputs	writes a character string to a file stream (function)