.. highlightlang:: us

.. _gets:

gets
====

.. index:: gets

.. us.tag  gets NOTREADYENGLISH

The :ref:`gets` function reads a line from the Command Window and stores it in *ssInputLine*.
The line consists of all characters up to and including the first newline character ("\n").
:ref:`gets` then replaces the newline character with a null character ("\0") before returning the line.

.. function::  ssInputLine = gets()

.. us.return

**Return Value**

*ssInputLine* is the input string.

.. us.example

**Example**

::

   printf("Input a string: ");s = gets();printf("Your input was: %s\n", s);

.. seealso::
   :ref:`printf`

:sub:`id-1437485`