Why gets() or [^\n] is not working as expected in this program?

Question

%s is working properly but specifiers in the question are not giving the expected result.

https://code.sololearn.com/co6g31vRLrG8/?ref=app

Answer 1

it's working fine now, after some debugging, I don't want to create a code for it, just copy and run it

#include <stdio.h>
# include<string.h>
typedef struct{
char city[20];
long int population;
float literacy;
}census;
int main() {
int i;
census name[5],p[5],l[5];
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
printf ("\nenter name of city:");
scanf("%[^\n]",name[i].city);
printf("\nenter population of city:");
scanf("%ld",&p[i].population);
printf("\nenter literacy rate:");
scanf("%f",&l[i].literacy);
}
for(i=0;i<5;i++)
{
printf ("\nname of city:%s",name[i].city);
// scanf("%[^\n]",name[i].city);
printf("\npopulation of city:%ld",p[i].population );
// scanf("%l",&p[i].population);
printf("\nliteracy rate:%f",l[i].literacy);
// scanf("%f",&l[i].literacy);
}
return 0;
}

Answer 2

Gets() works just fine but ^\n have problem running in sololearn because CLI isn't supported here so can't take \n as input

Your code has got a lot of errors
So check my gets() use

https://code.sololearn.com/cWSAvZpjzHia/?ref=app