How do you allow spaces to be entered using scanf?

Question

Using the following code:

char *name = malloc(sizeof(char) + 256); 

printf(\"What is your name? \");
scanf(\"%s\", name);

printf(\"Hello %s. Nice to meet y         


        

Answer 1

You can use this

char name[20];
scanf("%20[^\n]", name);

Or this

void getText(char *message, char *variable, int size){
    printf("\n %s: ", message);
    fgets(variable, sizeof(char) * size, stdin);
    sscanf(variable, "%[^\n]", variable);
}

char name[20];
getText("Your name", name, 20);

DEMO