The gets() call always gets ignored due to the carriage return or new line. What is the prosper way to use the gets() function?

Question

Please don't tell me any complicated alternative methods to get string input. I've just started learning C

Answer 1

You may try adding this before your gets() call:
fflush(stdin);

Basically, what this does is clear the standard input buffer. All your data from reading operations on console is saved to a buffer, and read from there. So if you had a read operation before gets(), a \n is left there and will skip your gets(). This statement clears the buffer so that it becomes empty. Thus, your gets now works.