Program doesn’t execute gets() after scanf(), even using fflush(stdin)

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If flushing std doesn’t work, then try reading in the extra characters and discarding, as suggested here.

This will work:

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    char nombre[10];
    char mensaje[80];
    int c;

    printf("Type your name:\n");
    scanf("%9s", nombre);

    while((c= getchar()) != '\n' && c != EOF)
            /* discard */ ;

    printf("Now, type a message:\n");
    gets(mensaje);

    printf("%s:%s",nombre,mensaje);
    return 0;
}

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