Thread: error: expected identifier or â(â before âwhileâ

I have used this bit of code before without problems, however, when using it now, i'm getting the error listed in the title...

I don't see anything wrong with it.. any help?

Code:

        //Prompting user for Input file//
        while(resp == 'Y' || resp == 'y'){
                printf("Please enter the file you'd like to read from: ");
                scanf("%s", fileInName);
                if((fopen(fileInName, "r")) == NULL){
                        printf("Could not open requested file. Would you like to enter another file? [Y/N]: ");
                        scanf("%*c %c", &resp);
                }
                else {
                        inFile = fopen(fileInName, "r");
                        break;
                }
                if(resp == 'n' || resp == 'N')
                        exit(1);

        }

That code looks fine to me. What comes before it? Perhaps a missing ; or unmatched parens or curly braces.

I don't immediately see any problem, but I'm willing to bet the error is actually somewhere above this snippet of code.

This is everything that exists above that bit of code

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MaxSize 30
int main(){

        FILE *inFile;
        FILE *outFile;

        char resp = 'Y';
        char fileInName[20];
        char fileOutName[20];

        int k;
        int numRecords;

        //Define struct//
        struct employee {
                char surname[10];
                char given[10];
                char dept[20];
                float payRate;
                char eyeColor[8];
        }

Just caught it, its my first time using structs and i didn't realize i needed a semi-colon after the struct definition. sorry for the trouble folks. :-/

thanks for the help

Code:

struct employee {
                char surname[10];
                char given[10];
                char dept[20];
                float payRate;
                char eyeColor[8];
        }  ;

and defining struct in main means the definition of this struct is local to main function only.
Most of the time, I can assure you don't want it.