#include <stdio.h>
 
int Menu()
{
 
	int choice = 0;		/* menu choice value */
	/* with the following loop we force the user to choose
	 * on of the 3 valid answers: 1, 2, or 3
	 */
 
	do { 
		fprintf(stdout, "Please choose one of the following:\n"
				"1. do1 \n"
				"2. do2 \n"
				"3. do3 \n");
		fscanf(stdin, "%d", &choice);
 
	} while ( choice != 1 && choice != 2 && choice != 3);	
 
	return choice;
}	
 
 
int main()
{
	int mychoice = Menu();
	printf("\n\n\tyour choice was:: %d\n", mychoice);
	printf("\nnow lets read a string with fgets\n", mychoice);
	char buffer[256];
	fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);
	fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);
	//fscanf(stdin, "%s", buffer);	//unfortunatelly it doesn't work because it stops after reading a white space
	printf("\nhere is your string ::: %s\n", buffer);
 
	return 0;
}

int Menu()
{
	char buff[BUFSIZ];
	int choice = 0;		/* menu choice value */
	/* with the following loop we force the user to choose
	 * on of the 3 valid answers: 1, 2, or 3
	 */
 
	do { 
		fprintf(stdout, "Please choose one of the following:\n"
				"1. do1 \n"
				"2. do2 \n"
				"3. do3 \n");
		fgets( buff, sizeof buff, stdin );
		if ( sscanf( buff, "%d", &choice ) != 1 ) {
			printf( "I asked for a number!\n" );
		}
	} while ( choice != 1 && choice != 2 && choice != 3);	
 
	return choice;
}