C - user decision based do/while loop not working correctly

Question

I have a problem which after many tests I think it's due to me not understanding how the input buffer works.

I have a while cycle which should continue to iterate until the user types "no" to stop the iteration.

I have two problems.

1. The while never stops to iterate regardless the user enters "no" or whatever is not equal to "yes"
2. As you can see the output at the second cycle has a problem. The program doesn't ask the user to input a string and skip that step, like the user just types ENTER.

CODE:

int foo = 0;

do{

  int i, cycles;
  char array[MAX_LENGTH+1];



  for(cycles=0; cycles < MAX_READ_CYCLES; cycles++){

    i=0;

    printf("\n\nEnter a string: ");

    char ch;
    while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n' && ch != EOF) {
      array[i] = ch;
      i++;
    }

    array[i] = '\0'; //string terminator


    printf("String you entered: %s\n", array);

    printf("\nDo you want to continue? 1: yes / 0: no \n");
    scanf("%d", &foo);

  }

} while( foo == 1);

OUTPUT

Enter a string: test
String you entered: test

Do you want to continue? 1: yes / 0: no
0

Enter a string: String you entered: 

Do you want to continue? 1: yes / 0: no
3

Enter a string: String you entered: 

Do you want to continue?

Answer 1

Your program doesn't terminate if the user enters "yes" because of the inner for loop:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAX_LENGTH 100
#define MAX_READ_CYCLES 100

int main() {
    int cycles = 0;
    char foo[4];
    do {
        char array[MAX_LENGTH + 1];

        printf("\n\nEnter a string: ");

        char ch;
        int i = 0;
        while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n' && ch != EOF) {
            array[i] = ch;
            i++;
        }

        array[i] = '\0'; //string terminator


        printf("String you entered: %s\n", array);

        printf("\nDo you want to continue?");
        scanf("%s", foo);

        cycles++;

        while ((ch = getchar()) != '\n' && ch != EOF); // force drop stdin

    } while (strcmp(foo, "yes") == 0 && cycles < MAX_READ_CYCLES);
}

Also see I am not able to flush stdin and http://c-faq.com/stdio/stdinflush2.html