Why is scanf() causing infinite loop in this code?

Question

I\'ve a small C-program which just reads numbers from stdin, one at each loop cycle. If the user inputs some NaN, an error should be printed to the console and the input pro

Answer 1

Rather than using scanf() and have to deal with the buffer having invalid character, use fgets() and sscanf().

/* ... */
    printf("0 to quit -> ");
    fflush(stdout);
    while (fgets(buf, sizeof buf, stdin)) {
      if (sscanf(buf, "%d", &number) != 1) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Err...\n");
      } else {
        work(number);
      }
      printf("0 to quit -> ");
      fflush(stdout);
    }
/* ... */