gets(3S)            (C Programming Language Utilities)             gets(3S)


   NAME
         gets, fgets - get a string from a stream

   SYNOPSIS
         #include <stdio.h>

         char *gets (char *s);

         char *fgets (char *s, int n, FILE *stream);

   DESCRIPTION
         gets reads characters from the standard input stream [see intro(3)],
         stdin, into the array pointed to by s, until a new-line character is
         read or an end-of-file condition is encountered.  The new-line
         character is discarded and the string is terminated with a null
         character.

         fgets reads characters from the stream into the array pointed to by
         s, until n-1 characters are read, or a new-line character is read and
         transferred to s, or an end-of-file condition is encountered.  The
         string is then terminated with a null character.

         When using gets, if the length of an input line exceeds the size of
         s, indeterminate behavior may result.  For this reason, it is
         strongly recommended that gets be avoided in favor of fgets.

   SEE ALSO
         lseek(2), read(2), ferror(3S), fopen(3S), fread(3S), getc(3S),
         scanf(3S), stdio(3S), ungetc(3S).

   DIAGNOSTICS
         If end-of-file is encountered and no characters have been read, no
         characters are transferred to s and a NULL pointer is returned.  If a
         read error occurs, such as trying to use these functions on a file
         that has not been opened for reading, a NULL pointer is returned and
         the error indicator for the stream is set.  If end-of-file is
         encountered, the EOF indicator for the stream is set.  Otherwise s is
         returned.















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