Reading a single character in C

by 
scanf("%c",&in);

leaves a newline which is consumed in the next iteration.

Change it to:

scanf(" %c",&in); // Notice the whitespace in the format string

which tells scanf to ignore whitespaces.

OR

scanf(" %c",&in);
getchar(); // To consume the newline

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