Thread: Please Help If You Could...

Hello Everyone,

I was wondering if someone could please help me out. I am a newbie
to the world of "C" and I have been having some difficulty with
something I have been trying to do. I am just starting to learn
about pointers and passing to/from functions.

What I am trying to accomplish is the following.

I have a function that reads input from the user and asks for a file
path and name. I then check to see if it exists and if so I return
the FILE pointer. Everything is working just fine. However I would
like to also be able to return to my main() function the path that
the user entered. I have used a char array for the path_name input
and have not figured out a way to pass that back using pointers to
main().

Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks in advance!

- shane

Code:

FILE * myfunction(char *path)    // pass a pointer as paramater
{
  ...
  fgets(path, 499, stdin);             // fill passed pointer 
  path[strlen(path)-1] = '\0';        // with the string
  ...
  return filepointer;
}

...

int main(void)
{
  ...
  char path[500];
  FILE *mega = myfunction(path); // path is now the path entered.
  ...
}

;

Use salem's code, he's a professional. And I didn't pass the size of the array. Naughty.

Thank you so much for your help and code examples, I have incorporated them and everything is working great!

- shane