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);
}

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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