Input string with new line

Question

What is th code or statement for input multiline sentence

Answer 1

I tried this, it's just a modified version from sample for reading string with whitespaces, I replaced \n in the sample with a . (period) character. This code will keep reading the input until specified length (50 characters), or if the input character was a '.' (period).

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
char buffer[51];

// read up to a max of 50 char
// or when a '.' character found
scanf("%50[^.]s", buffer);
printf("%u characters read:\n%s\n", strlen(buffer), buffer);

return 0;
}