Conditionally skipping entire line with just fscanf
How can this be done with just
fscanf?
fscanf(stdin, "%*[^\n]"); will read all characters other than a new-line character, until an error or end-of-file occurs.
* says to suppress assignment of the data being read.
By default, [ starts a list of characters to accept. However, ^ negates that; [^\n] says to accept all characters other than a new-line character.