Thread: meaning

what does buff means..
like i see program that has

buff[256]

can anyone tell me what does this means. thenax

I think you have got :
char buff[256]
which declares an array of 256 chars (and is used as a buffer maybe)

ya that is what i meant buffer as i see now i posted it wrong.. so what is it really doing like i have this program that i keep getting erros..

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)

{

char buffer[256];

printf(" enter name and press enter ");
fgets(buffer,256,stdin);
printf(" \nyour name has %d chars and spaces\n",stdin( buffer )-1);
return 0;
}

now im tring to see what this program doe... (its in linux) the error that i get is "test.c:12: called object is not a function" hhmm any help... thanx

char buffer[256] is just an array in which input is stored.
Try :

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
char buffer[256];
printf(" enter name and press enter ");
fgets(buffer,256,stdin);
printf(" \nyour name has %d chars and spaces\n",strlen(buffer));
return 0;
}

>stdin( buffer )-1);

That was what went wrong, stdin is not a function.

so what is that -1 for if you dont mind me asking