Excerpt from "The C Programming Language by Kerninghan & Ritchie" -
"*int fflush(FILE *stream) - *On an output stream, fflush causes any
buffered but unwritten data to be written; *on an input stream, the effect
is undefined*."
So fflush was never meant for stdin.
- Ravindra
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Hatta <tmd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> don't fflush(stdin) it doesn't make any sense.
> fflush(stdout) and fflush(stderr) only.
>
> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Saravanan Selvamani
> <saravananselvam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In the following programming when i gave character input rather
> > than integer , the following scanf statement is not working . so i
> introduce
> > the fflush(stdin) before the last scanf statement.
> > But i get the same error as i before .
> > #include<stdio.h>
> > int main()
> > {
> > int a,b;
> > scanf("%d",&a);
> > -------->
> > fflush(stdin);
> > scanf("%d",&b);
> > printf("%d",b); //prints some
> > garbage value.
> > return 0;
> > }
> > so then what is the use of the fflush(stdin) and how to correct the above
> > error? Thanks in advance.
> > Regards
> > P.S.Saravanan.
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