RA>> char name[40];
   RA>> gets(name);
 DVH> If you do that verbatim, you will have an overflow problem with all
 DVH> known compilers.  This is how that should be:
 DVH> char name[40];
 DVH> gets(name);
 DVH> name[40]='\n';
 DVH> You have to put a NULL on the end or it will have an overflow problem.
 DVH> I believe you have to do that with 'fgets' as well..
 DVH> Just put the null character on the very end of the array.
 DVH> Hope you like my advice. Peace!
That's WORSE. Sorry.
'\n' is not null, it's EOL (end of line)
name[40] is the first byte AFTER the array.
and it doesn't prevent gets from writing like 200 characters, or even
42.
fgets has _no_problem_ with that, though -- if you set the maximum
number of characters properly.
matju
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