problem with flushing input stream C

I am not able to flush stdin here,is there a way to flush stdin?If not then how to make getchar() to take a character as input from user, instead of a "n" left by scanf in the input buffer??

#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

int main(int argc,char*argv[]) {
    FILE *fp;
    char another='y';
    struct emp {
        char name[40];
        int age;
        float bs;
    };
    struct emp e;
    if(argc!=2) {
        printf("please write 1 target file namen");
    }
    fp=fopen(argv[1],"wb");
    if(fp==NULL) {
        puts("cannot open file");
        exit(1);
    }
    while(another=='y') {
        printf("nEnter name,age and basic salary");
        scanf("%s %d %f",e.name,&e.age,&e.bs);
        fwrite(&e,sizeof(e),1,fp);

        printf("Add another record (Y/N)");
        fflush(stdin);
        another=getchar();
    }
    fclose(fp);
    return 0;
}

EDIT :- updated code ,still not working properly

#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"

int main(int argc,char*argv[]) {
    FILE *fp;
    char another='y';
    struct emp {
        char name[40];
        int age;
        float bs;
    };
    struct emp e;
    unsigned int const BUF_SIZE = 1024;
    char buf[BUF_SIZE];

    if(argc!=2) {
        printf("please write 1 target file namen");
    }
    fp=fopen(argv[1],"wb");
    if(fp==NULL) {
        puts("cannot open file");
        exit(1);
    }
    while(another=='y') {
        printf("nEnter name,age and basic salary : ");
        fgets(buf, BUF_SIZE, stdin);
        sscanf(buf, "%s %d %f", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs);
        fwrite(&e,sizeof(e),1,fp);
        printf("Add another record (Y/N)");
        another=getchar();
    }
    fclose(fp);
    return 0;
}

output for this is :-

dev@dev-laptop:~/Documents/c++_prac/google_int_prac$ ./a.out emp.dat

Enter name,age and basic salary : deovrat 45 23
Add another record (Y/N)y

Enter name,age and basic salary : Add another record (Y/N)y

Enter name,age and basic salary : Add another record (Y/N)

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Update: You need to add another getchar() at the end of your loop to consume the 'n' that follows the Y/N. I don't think this is the best way to go, but it will make your code work as it stands now.

while(another=='y') {
    printf("nEnter name,age and basic salary : ");
    fgets(buf, BUF_SIZE, stdin);
    sscanf(buf, "%s %d %f", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs);
    fwrite(&e,sizeof(e),1,fp);
    printf("Add another record (Y/N)");
    another=getchar();
    getchar();
}

I would suggest reading the data you want to parse (up to and including the 'n') into a buffer and then parse it out using sscanf(). This way you consume the newline and you can perform other sanity checks on the data.

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fflush(stdin) is undefined behaviour(a). Instead, make scanf "eat" the newline:

scanf("%s %d %fn", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs);

Everyone else makes a good point about scanf being a bad choice. Instead, you should use fgets and sscanf :

const unsigned int BUF_SIZE = 1024;
char buf[BUF_SIZE];
fgets(buf, BUF_SIZE, stdin);
sscanf(buf, "%s %d %f", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs);

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(a) See, for example, C11 7.21.5.2 The fflush function :

int fflush(FILE *stream) - If stream points to an output stream or an update stream in which the most recent operation was not input, the fflush function causes any unwritten data for that stream to be delivered to the host environment to be written to the file; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.

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用这个代替getchar（）：

   char another[BUF_SIZE] = "y";
   while( 'y' == another[0] )
   {
        printf( "nEnter name,age and basic salary : " );
        fgets( buf, BUF_SIZE, stdin );
        sscanf( buf, "%s %d %f", e.name, &e.age, &e.bs );
        fwrite( &e, sizeof(e) , 1, fp );
        printf( "Add another record (Y/N)" );
        fgets( another, BUF_SIZE, stdin );
    }

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