How can I check if the character a user inputted is more than 1 character?

[rare locust]

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[humble magnet]

strlen(x)

[nimble cosmos]

ahh ok sick is that in the std library?

[humble magnet]

its in string.h, which comes standard ^^

[nimble cosmos]

Ahh ok that makes sense. So would I initialize the input variable as a character or a string ?

[humble magnet]

as a cstring, yes

but

[plush sluice]

btw how are you getting the input?

you must always set a limit on the input function itself, that's why gets is deprecated, it got no such feature.

[humble magnet]

char buff[2]; // example: {'a', '\n'}
scanf("%s", buff);

int i = buff[1] == '\0'; 
//if i == 0, string is 1 character, if not, its to long

//safety measures (beause scanf does not nullterminate a buffer if the input is too long):
buff[1] = '\0'

[nimble cosmos]

hold on i ended up ditching this program completley thank you though

!close

[rare locust]

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