C string not long enough

Hmmm, im writing an infinite net send program in c, and you can enter your own message. I use

scanf("%s",message);

to get the string, then i use

printf("MESSAGE %s SET",message);

to show the message back to me. but if i enter "hello world" (with or without quotes) the printf() returns

MESSAGE hello SET

Any one know how you fix this, or have a link to a site where it has info on this sort of stuff?

thanks, Zalifer

try fgets(message,255,stdin); or gets(message);

no luck, that didnt work either..

So you are doing something wrong… Scanf(%s) read chars until first white character but gets read string until you write new line char - '&*92;n'. You can read this: http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/aix/libs/basetrf1/gets.htm

I have no idea how you are screwing this up, but I typed up some quick code to show you what yours should look like..

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	char message[20];

	gets(message);
	printf("MESSAGE %s SET",message);

	return 0;
}