gets() function is not available in Visual studio 2015 community

Question

I have faced a compiler error(c3861) in my newly installed Visual studio community 2015 IDE:

I just want to use gets() function from stdio.h library, a

Answer 1

The gets function was considered too dangerous (because it can easily cause a buffer overflow), so it was removed from the latest revisions of both C and C++.

You are supposed to use fgets instead. With that function you can limit input to the size of your buffer.