process - Sending characters using pipes in C -

i trying send string parent process child process using pipes in c programming language, works correctly, receive incomplete string without first character. wrong in code? thank you.

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h>  #include <sys/wait.h>  #include <string.h>  int main(int argc, char** args) {     int pid, p[2];     int status = -100;     char input[100];     char inputbuffer[100];      if(pipe(p) == -1)     {         return -1;     }      if((pid = fork())<0)     {         printf("error\n");     }     else     {         if(pid==0)         {               close(p[1]);             while(1)             {                 if(!read(p[0],&inputbuffer,1))                 {                     close(p[0]);                     break;                 }                 else                 {                     read(p[0],&inputbuffer,100);                 }             }             printf("received: %s\n",inputbuffer);             exit(0);          }         else         {             printf("enter string\n");             scanf("%s", &input);             printf("string entered: %s\n",input);             close(p[0]);             write(p[1], input, strlen(input)+1);             close(p[1]);             wait(&status);         }     }     return 0; } 

the problem first read 1 byte see if isn't nul terminator information gone because overwrite in latter call! need increment pointer on latter call.

if(!read(p[0],&inputbuffer,1)) {   close(p[0]);   break; } else {   char *pointer = &inputbuffer;   read(p[0],pointer+1,99); }