how to make ignorance in sequence scanf input

demhat (16)
hi guys,
here in this code, it's working if I execute scanf functions one by one (independently, as I take others in comment line). However, I tried different variations but it's not working and regardless of how I search, I couldn't have figured out why it doesn't work on purpose. can you help, please?

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

#define SIZE 20

int main(){


    char a[SIZE]={0};
    char b[SIZE]={0};
    char c[SIZE]={0};

    printf("Enter the string suzy as you see: ");
    scanf("%s\"%[^\"]\'%[^\']",a,b,c);

 /*   printf("Enter the string suzy as you see: ");
    scanf("%s",a);

    printf("Enter the string \"suzy\" as you see: ");
    scanf("\"%[^\"]",b);

    printf("Enter the string \'suzy\' as you see: ");
    scanf("\'%[^\']",c);
*/
    printf("\n\na The string suzy is %s",a);
    printf("\n\nb The string \"suzy\" is %s",b);
    printf("\n\nc The string \'suzy\' is %s\n\n\n\n\n",c);

    return 0;
}
 
Enter the string suzy as you see: suzy "suzy" 'suzy'


a The string suzy is suzy

b The string "suzy" is

c The string 'suzy' is

here is the code in sequential form
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define SIZE 20

int main(){


    char a[SIZE]={0};
    char b[SIZE]={0};
    char c[SIZE]={0};

  //  printf("Enter the string suzy as you see: ");
  //  scanf("%s\"%[^\"]\'%[^\']",a,b,c);

    printf("Enter the string suzy as you see: ");
    scanf("%s",a);

    printf("Enter the string \"suzy\" as you see: ");
    scanf("\"%[^\"]",b);

    printf("Enter the string \'suzy\' as you see: ");
    scanf("\'%[^\']",c);

    printf("\n\na The string suzy is %s",a);
    printf("\n\nb The string \"suzy\" is %s",b);
    printf("\n\nc The string \'suzy\' is %s\n\n\n\n\n",c);

    return 0;
}
 
Enter the string suzy as you see: suzy
Enter the string "suzy" as you see: Enter the string 'suzy' as you see:

a The string suzy is suzy

b The string "suzy" is

c The string 'suzy' is
Peter87 (11238)
The following seems to work:
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define SIZE 20

int main()
{
    char a[SIZE]={0};
    char b[SIZE]={0};
    char c[SIZE]={0};

    printf("Enter the string suzy as you see: ");
    scanf(" %s",a);

    printf("Enter the string \"suzy\" as you see: ");
    scanf(" \"%[^\"]\"",b);

    printf("Enter the string \'suzy\' as you see: ");
    scanf(" \'%[^\']\'",c);

    printf("\n\na The string suzy is %s",a);
    printf("\n\nb The string \"suzy\" is %s",b);
    printf("\n\nc The string \'suzy\' is %s\n\n\n\n\n",c);

    return 0;
}

I made two changes to the format strings:
1) Added space in front which will make scanf ignore any leading whitespace before trying to read the rest.
2) Added missing quotes (\" and \') at the end.
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demhat (16)
it doesn't make any sense to add \" or \' at the end, in [^\"] or [^\'] it will be ignored I don't get the point??
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demhat (16)
in origin of your code I made this change and it worked but still I am not sure why that happens.
first scanf
scanf("%s",a);
second scanf
scanf(" \"%[^\"]",b);
third scanf
scanf("\" \'%[^\']",c);
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Peter87 (11238)
The extra \" is necessary to consume the ending double quote character from the user input. 
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"suzy"
     ^

If you don't do that it will be left in the input buffer and cause the next scanf to fail because it expects a single quote ' but finds a double quote "
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Duthomhas (13212)
What if user enters suzyismybestfriendandiwillalwaysloveher?
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