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

On some platforms (especially Windows and Linux) you can use fflush(stdin);:

#include 

int main(void)
{
  int number, p = 0, n = 0;

  while (1) {
    printf("-> ");
    if (scanf("%d", &number) == 0) {
        fflush(stdin);
        printf("Err...\n");
        continue;
    }
    fflush(stdin);
    if (number > 0) p++;
    else if (number < 0) n++;
    else break; /* 0 given */
  }

  printf("Read %d positive and %d negative numbers\n", p, n);
  return 0;
}