Ways to take character array as an input in C++

Take string or character array as input in C++.

Following are few ways to do this:

1. gets(arr)
2. scanf(“%s”, arr)
3. scanf(“%[^\n]”, &arr)
4. fgets(arr, 20, stdin)

Following is the program to show you some ways to take character array/ string as input in C++.

You can also observe in this program which method of taking string as input allows whitespaces and which does not. For example, scanf(“%s”, arr) does not take input after white space is encountered whereas gets(arr) does not mind the whitespaces.

C++ Program

Output of Program

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