what to use to accept both characters and digits together in turboC

[ToiNKieZ]

example output:

Meter number is: 124123ABC231

"what should i use to define something like that....

TurboC newbie here...

[Ancient Dragon]

a character array or std::string

[ToiNKieZ]

can you give a sample how to do it...?

[Ancient Dragon]

char mnumber[255];
printf("Enter an item number\n");
fgets(mnumber,sizeof(mnumber), stdin);
if( mnumber[strlen(mnumber)-1] == '\n')
   mnumber[strlen(mnumber)-1] = '\0';
printf("Meter number is: %s\n", mnumber);

Or if you want the c++ version

std::string mnumber;
cout << "Enter an item number\n";
getline(cin,mnumber);
cout << "Meter number is: " << mnumber << '\n';