How can I read a paragraph in via the terminal as a single string in C?

Question

I\'m writing a C program that should read in an essay from a user. The essay is divided into multiple paragraphs. I don\'t know how many lines or characters the essay will be,

Answer 1

You can read character at a time and copy it into your essay buffer. When your essay buffer runs out of space, you can do a realloc to get another chunk of memory. When your character that you read is a "#" you're done.