Reading spaces on C

Question

I'm trying to read a serie of characters like the following one in C:

   &&&&&&&&\n& & &    &\n& & &&&& &\n

(notice that in the beginning there are spaces too).

I'm using a cicle "while" with:

scanf("%c",&cvar);

because I'm "storing" the characters into an array of structs that i'm using.

However, the program keeps ignoring the first spaces, and only starts storing from the first '&' appearence.

Any tips? Thank you in advance and sorry for my poor english.

Here is part of the code:

while(scanf("%c",&lab[i].simb)!=EOF){
    lab[i].x=x;
    lab[i].y=y;
    if(lab[i].simb=='\n'){
        x=0;
        y++;            
    } else x++;
    i++;
}

Answer 1

Read this...

I'll suggest to use getline if you are using gcc , but if however you want to read each character use getc instead of scanf ... and sorry for my poor English too...