Why does scanf ask twice for input when there's a newline at the end of the format string?

Question

#include 
#include 
#include 

char *method1(void)
{
    static char a[4];
    scanf(\"%s\\n\", a);
    return a;
}

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Answer 1

use gets() or fgets() instead...alternatively use scanf("%[^\n]s",a);