C programming help with scanf?

[Darren D]

by referring to the code below: void digestline(void) { scanf("%*[^\n]"); /* Skip to the End of the Line */ scanf("%*1[\n]"); /* Skip One Newline */ }can anyone explain what the [\n] parts are? I couldn't find any documentation online referring to such a format.(I found this code on http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/r...torial/io.html )

[ankur899]

y not dear% hope u know it so i m not explaining it* to read all chars from the input (keyboard iostream / io buffer)[] what is contained in it is an regular expression ^ tells not \n a new line charso the first scanf will skips all characters until the newline char is found...where as the second scanf function allows u to only read new line char only and only once ie. while storing to any char array u also stores there a new line char but in case of first u didnt i.e. u discarded the storage if a new line char occurs....but i let u know to which variable the values are going is missing.................anyway rank my answer which encourage me to answer morehttp://www.geocities.com/ankur899/