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    Microsoft. Who? MethodMan's Avatar
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    Structs

    Hello

    If i have a char name[40], in my struct, how would I be able to read in a value for the name, and then apply it to the struct, for the char name[] ?

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    Question

    U want to know how to read a string value into a struct variables member??

    simple

    struct <whatever> <var>
    scanf("%s",var.name);

    Is that what u were looking for?

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    main()
    {
    typedef struct {

    int year;
    char make[40];
    char colour[40];
    float price;

    } car;
    car number1;

    I would like to ask them for the make of the car, and put it into the make var(above).

    Thanks

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    printf("Enter make of car > ");
    gets(car->make);

    I hope this is what you're looking for.. let me know... Looking at it now, I'm not sure what the name of your structure is.. try it anyhow(??), if you want...

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    >printf("Enter make of car > ");
    >gets(car->make);

    A tiny Correction...

    gets(number1.make);


    B'Cos, car is not a structure variable and neither number1 is declared as a pointer....(so u cant use the -> operator).


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    A tiny Correction...

    gets(number1.make);
    A big Correction...
    Why give the user the opportunity to overwrite memory not assigned for them
    Code:
    fgets( number1.make, sizeof( number1.make ), stdin );
    check your docs for fgets()
    Last edited by C_Coder; 04-16-2002 at 01:39 PM.
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