Trying to create a menu in C that asks for user name only once

[mulvaslips]

Sorry for the long title...
trying to figure out how to create a user menu for a pedometer program that tracks a single user for 7 days.
I am a complete noob.
I need my menu to ask for the user name to get started and then obviously not ask for it again.. then it needs to have them enter their weight. here is what i have so far:

#include <stdio.h>


void userMenu (void);
int getSelection(void);


int main (void)

{
	int menuOption;

 userMenu();
	menuOption = getSelection();

	if (menuOption == 1)
	{
          printf("enter name\na,weight\n");
       }
		

	return(0);
}

void userMenu (void)

{
	printf (" 1 - Create user\n");
  printf (" 2-  Edit user\n");
  printf (" 3 - Start recording\n");
  printf (" 4 - Reports\n");
  printf (" 5 - Quit \n");


}

int getSelection(void)
{

	int option;

	do {
		printf("Please choose 2 - 5");
		scanf("%d", &option);
	} while (option > 5 || option <1);

	return (option;
	}

/* thanks for the help!

[BEN10]

Where are you getting the problem? Any error or anything else?

[C_ntua]

So just save the name

char name [MAX];
if (menuOption == 1)
{
    printf("enter name\na,weight\n");
    scanf("%s", name);
}

Where to save the name depends. If this is on a PC then save it in the Hard Disk, in a file. If there is some other memory, that doesn't get erased when power is off, then save it there.
If the power is always on, you don't need anything else. It is saved like above. You will just need to allocate memory dynamically for each user (with malloc(), calloc() ).

NOTE: There are better options than scanf(), just giving the idea here.
NOTE: Some memories, like RAM in a PC get erased after power is off. So you need to save informatio on Hard Disk. All variables in a program are on RAM memory (main memory)

[mulvaslips]

So just save the name

Code:
char name [MAX];
if (menuOption == 1)
{
    printf("enter name\na,weight\n");
    scanf("%s", name);
}

Where to save the name depends. If this is on a PC then save it in the Hard Disk, in a file. If there is some other memory, that doesn't get erased when power is off, then save it there.
If the power is always on, you don't need anything else. It is saved like above. You will just need to allocate memory dynamically for each user (with malloc(), calloc() ).

NOTE: There are better options than scanf(), just giving the idea here.
NOTE: Some memories, like RAM in a PC get erased after power is off. So you need to save informatio on Hard Disk. All variables in a program are on RAM memory (main memory)
I can just save it to a flash drive right?...thanks for that info.