fgets is unsafe! So what’s the alternative?

fgets is often described as a “safe” C function – one you should use instead of gets or scanf.

But is it really safe?

The plain answer is: NO. You can very easily corrupt data by reading unintended characters from the command prompt using fgets, as I explain in this video.

In previous videos I’ve already shown that standard C line-reading functions are unsafe so if fgets is unsafe too, what should you use instead?

In this lesson, I explain the problems and suggest some solutions.

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