Why doesn't this piece of code work?

[Ali Çehreli]

On 5/16/22 15:25, kdevel wrote:

 >     string a;
 >     a = readln();
 >     writeln(a);

 > consumes that newline from your first input resulting in variable a
 > containing the empty string ending with a newline.

Great catch! I should put this combination in my chapter.

 > I am not sure, why %s fits here. I would have expected a %d format for
 > parsing the integer.

I learned to read %s as "whatever the type of the argument is" (not 
"string").

Ali