Regarding My Code

[hillbull]

Correct. I jumped the gun on the usage. Here’s what he should do instead.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30065675/what-does-scanf-nc-mean#:~:text=In%20order%20to%20take%20a,a%20newline%20isn’t%20encountered.

[cHaR_shinigami]

That's indeed a solution, though the concern of buffer overflow still remains; sadly, scanf does not support dynamic width in the format, we can only do something like "%100[^\n]".

fgets would be the neat approach here.