Perhaps the simplest solution uses one of my favorite little-known functions, strcspn():
buffer[strcspn(buffer, “n”)] = 0;
If you want it to also handle ‘r’ (say, if the stream is binary):
buffer[strcspn(buffer, “rn”)] = 0; // works for LF, CR, CRLF, LFCR, …
The function counts the number of characters until it hits a ‘r’ or a ‘n’ (in other words, it finds the first ‘r’ or ‘n’). If it doesn’t hit anything, it stops at the ‘ ’ (returning the length of the string).
Note that this works fine even if there is no newline, because strcspn stops at a ‘ ’. In that case, the entire line is simply replacing ‘ ’ with ‘ ’.
The elegant way:
Name[strcspn(Name, “n”)] = 0;
The slightly ugly way:
char *pos;
if ((pos=strchr(Name, ‘n’)) != NULL)
*pos = ‘ ’;
else
/* input too long for buffer, flag error */
The slightly strange way:
strtok(Name, “n”);
Note that the strtok function doesn’t work as expected if the user enters an empty string (i.e. presses only Enter). It leaves the n character intact.
There are others as well, of course.