gets : gets « stdio.h « C Tutorial

Item	Value
Header file	stdio.h
Declaration	char gets(char str);
Function	reads characters from stdin. The newline character is translated into a null to terminate the string.
Return	a null pointer on failure.

You cannot limit the number of characters that gets() will read.

#include <stdio.h>
  #include <stdlib.h>

  int main(void)
  {
    char fname[128];

    printf("Enter filename: ");
    gets(fname);

    printf("%s \n", fname);

    return 0;
  }

Enter filename: 321
321

22.22.gets
	22.22.1.	gets
	22.22.2.	Using gets and putchar
	22.22.3.	gets() reads in only text