/* A MUCH better way to get input from the keyboard
 *
 * from S. Oualline's book, "Practical C Programming, 3rd. ed."
 *
 * This method is not as finicky as scanf(), because fgets gets
 * one full line at a time
 * 
 * BJ Furman 01OCT2010
 */

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
/* Declare variables that you want to read in */
/* Your list of variables will probably be different! */
    char char1;
    int var1;
    float var2;
    char string1[20]; /* an array to hold 19 characters */

/* Set up an array of characters to hold the user input */
    char line[100]; 

/* put a user prompt here */
    printf("Enter a string, a character, a float, and an integer separated by spaces\n");

/* get and process the user input */
    fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
    sscanf(line, "%s %c %f %d", string1, &char1, &var2, &var1);
    
/* print out what you got */
    printf("string: %s\tchar: %c\t\tfloat: %g\tint: %d \n", string1, char1, var2, var1);
    
    return 0;
}