How can I read a string with spaces in it in C?

Question

scanf("%s",str) won't do it. It will stop reading at the first space. gets(str) doesn't work either when the string is large. Any ideas?

Answer 1

use fgets with STDIN as the file stream. Then you can specify the amount of data you want to read and where to put it.

Answer 2

char str[100];

Try this

 scanf("%[^\n]s",str);

or this

fgets(str, sizeof str, stdin))