DV>   If you do that verbatim, you will have an overflow
DV>   problem with all known compilers.  This is how that
DV>   should be:
DV>      char name[40];
DV>      gets(name);
DV>      name[40]='\n';
DV>   You have to put a NULL on the end or it will have an
DV>   overflow problem. I believe you have to do that with
DV>   'fgets' as well..
   Don't try this at home! 
   Since name has only 40 elements, name[39] is the last
   one you can access. Accessing name[40] with an assignment
   operation writes a value to an unknown location. Rather, we
   KNOW where it writes it, but have no idea what SHOULD be
   there. This can crash your system. You don't need '\n' at
   the end of your string, and will often wish to strip it off
   when using gets() or fgets(). You want a NUL, or zero
   terminator, which is '\0', which gets() and fgets() will also
   automatically assign. It is things like this which made the
   stream libraries necessary, as the I/O usage is confusing at
   best, and can absolutely bewilder the beginner.
istream getname;
char name[40];
getname.getline(name, 40);
   or
char name[40];
fgets(name, 40, stdin);
if(strchr(name, '\n'))
{
   *strchr(name, '\n') = '\0';
}
else
{
   char buf[16] = "";
   do {
      fgets(buf, 16, stdin);
   }  while(!strchr(buf, '\n'));
}
   You WILL have to strip the '\n' from that second example,
   which is C and not C++, since it ignores stream objects and
   uses standard C functions instead. You also need to see if
   the '\n' made it into the string or if it remained in the
   stream buffer and needs to be flushed from it.
   You can see how the C++ version would be much preferred for
   quick development and simplified maintenance.
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