Accept Paragraph using scanf in C

Accept Paragraph using scanf in C

#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
char para[100];
printf("Enter Paragraph : ");
scanf("%[^\t]",para);
printf("%s",para);
}

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Output :[Press Tab to Stop Accepting Characters ]

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How ?

scanf("%[^\t]",para);

1. Here scanf will accept Characters entered with spaces.
2. It also accepts the Words , new line characters .
3. [^\t]  represent that all characters are accepted except tab(\t) , whenever \t will encountered then the process of accepting characters will be terminated.

Drawbacks :

1. Paragraph Size cannot be estimated at Compile Time
2. It’s vulnerable to buffer overflows.

How to Specify Maximum Size to Avoid Overflow ?

//------------------------------------
// Accepts only 100 Characters
//------------------------------------
scanf("%100[^\t]",para);

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Tags / Keywords : | Accepting Strings, Reading Line containing Space, scanf, string with spaces, Strings

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