fgets instructions gets skipped.Why?

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I’ll bet it’s because of the \n stuck in the input stream.

See one of these questions:

I am not able to flush stdin.
How do I go about Flushing STDIN here?
scanf() causing infinite loop

or this answer.

Also: Why not to use scanf().

P.S. fgets() is a function, not an instruction.

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