C program skipping printf and scanf statements

Question

My program below conducts a Caesar's cipher in C. For some reason, after a message has been input by the user, the printf(" \nEnter key:") and scanf("%d", &key) statements get "jumped" over. My thought was something related to the input buffer having a char and newline entered causing the jump (hence the fflush attempt). How do I prevent this behavior?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main() {
    char message[50], ms;
    int i, key, choice;

    printf("Enter 1. to Encrypt, or 2. to Decrypt: ");
    scanf(" %d", &choice);

    printf("Enter a message to process: ");
    scanf(" %c", message);
    printf(" \nEnter key:");
    fflush(stdin);
    scanf("%d", &key);

    for (i = 0; message[i] != '\0'; ++i) {
        ms = message[i];
        if (ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z' && choice == 1) {
            ms = ms + key;
            if (ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z' && choice == 2) {
                ms = ms - key;
                if (ms > 'z') {
                    ms = ms - 'z' + 'a' - 1;
                }
            }
            message[i] = ms;
        } else
        if (ms >= 'A' && ms <= 'Z' && choice == 1) {
            ms = ms + key;
            if (ms >= 'A' && ms <= 'Z' && choice == 2) {
                ms = ms - key;
            }
            if (ms > 'Z') {
                ms = ms - 'Z' + 'A' - 1;
            }
            message[i] = ms;
        }
        if (choice == 1) {
            printf(" \nEncrypted message: %s", message);}
        else if (choice == 2) {
            printf(" \nDecrypted message: %s", message);}
    }
}

Answer 1

@ddisec I have noted 3 mistakes in your code .

First your scanf(" %c", message); .Here you have to use %s (String).

Second the result printing statements should be outside for-loop.

Third putting if(ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z'&& choice == 2) inside if (ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z' && choice == 1) dose not make any sense.

Try this corrected code:-

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main()
{
    char message[50], ms;
    int i, key, choice;

    printf("Enter 1. to Encrypt, or 2. to Decrypt: ");
    scanf("%d", &choice);
    getchar();                                              // to handle unwanted newline.
    printf("Enter a message to process: ");
    scanf("%49[^\n]", message);
    printf(" \nEnter key:");
    scanf("%d", &key);

    for (i = 0; message[i] != '\0'; ++i)
    {
        ms = message[i];
        if (ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z' && choice == 1)
        {
            ms = ms + key;
        }
        else if (ms >= 'a' && ms <= 'z' && choice == 2)
        {
            ms = ms - key;
        }
        else if (ms > 'z')
            {
                ms = ms - 'z' + 'a' - 1;
            }
        else if (ms >= 'A' && ms <= 'Z' && choice == 1)
        {
            ms = ms + key;
        }
        else if (ms >= 'A' && ms <= 'Z' && choice == 2)
        {
            ms = ms - key;
        }
        else if (ms > 'Z')
        {
            ms = ms - 'Z' + 'A' - 1;
        }

        message[i] = ms; // Only single modification code needed.
    }
    if (choice == 1)
    {
        printf(" \nEncrypted message: %s", message);
    }
    else if (choice == 2)
    {
        printf(" \nDecrypted message: %s", message);
    }
}