Reads a line from the standard input (stdin).

    Format

      #include  <stdio.h>

      char *gets  (char *str);

1  –  Function Variants

    The gets function has variants named _gets32 and _gets64 for use
    with 32-bit and 64-bit pointer sizes, respectively.

2  –  Argument

 str

    A pointer to a character string that is large enough to hold the
    information fetched from stdin.

3  –  Description

    The new-line character (\n)  that ends the line is replaced by
    the function with an ASCII null character (\0).

    When stdin is opened in record mode, gets treats the end of a
    record the same as a new-line character and, therefore, reads
    up to and including a new-line character or to the end of the
    record.

4  –  Return Values

    x                  A pointer to the str argument.
    NULL               Indicates that an error has occurred or that
                       the end-of-file was encountered before a new-
                       line character was encountered. The contents
                       of str are undefined if a read error occurs.