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Hey guys I have this program that doesn't compile

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
typedef
struct{
        double price;
        double tax;
        }Book;
double findTotal(Book cartoon);

void main(void)
{
  Book comics = {0.0, 0.0};
  double total = 0.0;

readdata(comics.price, comics.tax);
total= findTotal(comics);
puts(total);
}

double findTotal(Book cartoon)
{

double total;
  total= cartoon.price+cartoon.tax;
return total;

This is the error it gives:

Code:

test2.c: In function `main':
test2.c:16: incompatible type for argument 1 of `puts'
test2.c:10: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'

Is their a way to keep the main void still return the value of total to it?
And why is it giving me error for puts?

thanks for any help

Ouch, never ever ever ever void main. Here's my version of the code of what I think you're trying to do. You never posted a readata() function so I'm assuming it's there somewhere. I took it out due to simplicity. Here we go:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

/* book structure */
struct book{
	double price;
	double tax;
};

/* Function prototype */
double findTotal(struct book cartoon);

/* main func */
int main(){
	struct book comic = {10.0, 5.0};
	double total = 0.0;
	
	total = findTotal(comic);
	
	printf("Total = $%.2f\n", total);
	
	return 0;
}

/* Find the total */
double findTotal(struct book cartoon){
	double total;

	total = cartoon.price + cartoon.tax;

	return total;
}

EDIT: I added values other than 0.0 when intializing comic so you could see a real total.

thanks .

And one more question what does the statement "Use interactive appraoch to read two doubles values into the 2 data members price and tax of struct Book type variable named comics from the keyboard?.

So the main question is what is interactive approach?

THanks

It probably means it just wants you to ask the user for input from the keyboard. The code for that would look something like:

Code:

printf("Enter the price: ");
scanf("%f", &comic.price);

printf("Enter the amount of tax: ");
scanf("%f", &comic.tax);

ahh ok ....thanks a lot for your help