How can I read an input string of unknown length?

Question

If I don\'t know how long the word is, I cannot write char m[6];,
The length of the word is maybe ten or twenty long. How can I use scanf to ge

Answer 1

I know that I have arrived after 4 years and am too late but I think I have another way that someone can use. I had used getchar() Function like this:-

#include 
#include 
#include 

//I had putten the main Function Bellow this function.
//d for asking string,f is pointer to the string pointer
void GetStr(char *d,char **f)
{
    printf("%s",d);

    for(int i =0;1;i++)
    {    
        if(i)//I.e if i!=0
            *f = (char*)realloc((*f),i+1);
        else
            *f = (char*)malloc(i+1);
        (*f)[i]=getchar();
        if((*f)[i] == '\n')
        {
            (*f)[i]= '\0';
            break;
        }
    }   
}

int main()
{
    char *s =NULL;
    GetStr("Enter the String:- ",&s);
    printf("Your String:- %s \nAnd It's length:- %lu\n",s,(strlen(s)));
    free(s);
}

here is the sample run for this program:-

Enter the String:- I am Using Linux Mint XFCE 18.2 , eclispe CDT and GCC7.2 compiler!!
Your String:- I am Using Linux Mint XFCE 18.2 , eclispe CDT and GCC7.2 compiler!! 
And It's length:- 67