Im just starting to learn about strings. Right now I'm just trying to prompt the user to input multiple words and then use the scanf function. Since I am just learning strings there may be other errors. Feel free to address those as well. Thanks.
I can not figure out what to put after the %s in this situation. Or is a for loop not the right way to go about this problem?
Code:int main() { char *string1; int i; for (i=0; i<9; i=i+1) { printf("Please enter a word:\n"); scanf(%s, ); } }
You can't scan for multiple words with %s in a single pass; you need a different format specifier for that. I suggest you read your C book and/or the man page for scanf.
Your string isn't a string, it's just a pointer that points some random place. I suggest reading the FAQ on dynamic memory. Even if it was valid, you don't have an array of those pointers, so you couldn't do what your loop is trying.
Quzah.
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fgets() is pretty much the de-facto standard for reading in a line of text. Whatever you do, don't ever use gets() as it's unsafe.
One thing to remember about fgets() is that it will leave the '\n' character at the end of the string from when the user pressed ENTER (assuming the buffer size was big enough to capture the entire input).Code:int main(void) { char strings[9][50]; // Allocate space for 9 words, up to 49 characters each (plus a '\0' terminator) int i; for(i=0;i < 9;++i) { puts("Please enter a word:"); fgets(strings[i], 50, stdin); } return 0; }
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Well, amongst the many possibilities you could do this...Originally Posted by laurenlb
Go ahead try it out... it should work... but then go look up each function and study them until you understand what they do and how they contribute to the overall solution.Code:int main (void) { int i; char words[10][25] = {0}; // gather input for (i = 0; I < 20; i++) { printf("Enter word #%d : ", i); scanf(" %24s", words[i]); } // display the results printf("\n\n"); for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) printf("Word #%d is : %s\n",i, words[i]); return 0; }
Thanks. I understand now.
