Can i use flush method in C programming -visual studio . explain me with a syntax/

[parvathireddy]

Can i use flush method in C programming . my IDE is Visual studio 2010.

I want to clear the buffer and again i need to re initialise the buffer and to store a new data



thanks in advance

[weaknessforcats]

Of course. Just call fflush(stdout).

[parvathireddy]

but i need it in C ... I think stdout we use for streams

[Banfa]

That is C; stdout is a C object declared in stdio.h with type FILE* and fflush is used for streams because, basically, flush is an operation that you perform on streams.

What was it you actually wanted to do?

[parvathireddy]

Thanks Banfa fr replying .
I actually wanted to clear the existing buffer and to initialise the new buffer in that place. but we tried with different methods. But we are getting two problems.
1. sometimes getting garbage/junk data
2. Sometimes it is overlapping / appending


thanks in advance

[Banfa]

What do you mean by buffer? How is its cleared state represented?