Scanf or getchar? C Language

Question

Hi, im learning the language c but I get condfused because i dont understand Well the differences bettwen both of this functions.

How do you reccomend to use??

Answer 1

getchar() just gets a single character, whereas scanf() can get different types.

e.g.

int i;
scanf("%d", &i)

double r;
scanf("%f", &r);

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3640604/c-getchar-vs-scanf

Answer 2

and can i use a type of get but instead of one char to More???

Answer 3

scanf() gets multiple characters (strings), and attempts to convert them into the correct type, see my previous answer.

Here's the documentation for scanf()
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/scanf.3.html

Answer 4

Use getchar when you want one character input. You can use scanf for variety of inputs but not get char.

Answer 5

Hi Kechu, you can use scanf() for printing one or more characters.