Question

Since you’re not reading from the stream it seems much more flexible.
Both to mention that since you can easily change the timing/code location of the reads then you can with a c stream(am I wrong, can you make strings, ect into c FILE * streams)?

Plus, I don’t know I just feel a bit odd about scanf. Any pros/cons to scanf would be appreciated.

Edit: I meant the use of scanf or fscanf vs the combo of fgets+sscanf

Answer 1

This is well addressed in the C FAQ.

Why does everyone say not to use
scanf? What should I use instead?

If you are reading from a trusted file (NOT stdin), there’s no point in using fgets + sscanf instead of fscanf. Indeed using scanf (reading from stdin) is problematic.