Why does a space in my scanf statement make a difference? [duplicate]

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That’s because when you entered your character for the first scanf call, besides entering the character itself, you also pressed “Enter” (or “Return”). The “Enter” keypress sends a ‘\n’ to standard input which is what is scanned by your second scanf call.

So the second scanf just gets whatever is the next character in your input stream and assigns that to your variable (i.e. if you don’t use the space in this scanf statement). So, for example, if you don’t use the space in your second scanf and

You do this:

a<enter>
b<enter>

The first scanf assigns “a” and the second scanf assigns “\n”.

But when you do this:

ab<enter>

Guess what will happen? The first scanf will assign “a” and the second scanf will assign “b” (and not “\n”).

Another solution is to use scanf("%c\n", &c); for your first scanf statement.

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