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

/*reading string which contains spaces*/
#include
int main()
{
   char *c,*p;
   scanf("%[^\n]s",c);
   p=c;                /*since after reading then pointer points to another 
                       location iam using a second pointer to store the base 
                       address*/ 
   printf("%s",p);
   return 0;
 }