Array, reading in response etc...

Hello,
First thanks to all who have helped me get to this point.

I have a general question on how to tackle this section of problem. I need to read in a response from user (from 1 to 7) to determine the size of font to use in the text held in the structure array. Understand how to do a normal "scanf("%d", &fresponse) but not sure how to set it up. See the code below for a better understanding of problem....I need to read in response on size of text, apply it to the particular structure array of text then in the function apply it to the various fonts of 1 to 7:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define YES 1
#define NO 0 // not used

struct data {
char* text;
int bold, italic, underline, font;
};

void createPage ( struct data *array, int num);

int main ( void ) {
int response, i, fresponse;
char buff[BUFSIZ];
struct data myStructArray[80];

// this loop in a function would be a good idea
for ( i = 0 ; i < 80 ; i++ ) {
printf( "Please enter a line of text ('$' to exit): " );
fflush( stdout );
fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin );

//This checks to see if the user wants to end program //

if ( buff[0] == '$' )
break;

myStructArray[i].text = malloc( strlen(buff)+1 ); // allocate space
strcpy( myStructArray[i].text, buff );

printf( "\nDo you want text to be bold?[1/0] " );
fflush( stdout );
fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin );
sscanf( buff, "%d", &response );
myStructArray[i].bold = response;

printf( "\nDo you want text to be Italics?[1/0] " );
fflush( stdout );
fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin );
sscanf( buff, "%d", &response );
myStructArray[i].italic = response;

printf( "\nDo you want text to be Underlined?[1/0] " );
fflush( stdout );
fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin );
sscanf( buff, "%d", &response );
myStructArray[i].underline = response;

printf( "\nDo you size font do you wish to use?[1-7] " );
fflush( stdout );
fgets( buff, BUFSIZ, stdin );
sscanf( buff, "%d", &fresponse );
myStructArray[i].font = fresponse;

}

createPage( myStructArray, i );
return 0;
}

void createPage( struct data *a, int num ) {
int i;
FILE* outFile;
outFile = fopen( "phaseTwo.html","w" );

/* All HTML files must start with this tag. */
fprintf( outFile,"<html>\n" );

for ( i = 0 ; i < num ; i++, a++ ) {
if(a->bold == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"" );
}
if(a->italic == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"" );
}
if(a->underline == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"" );
}
if(a->font == 1) {
fprintf( outFile,"" );
fprintf( outFile,"%s",a->text );
fprintf( outFile,"\n" );

if(a->bold == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"\n" );
}
if(a->italic == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"\n" );
}
if(a->underline == YES) {
fprintf( outFile,"\n" );
}
if(a->font== 1) {
fprintf( outFile,"\n" );
}

}

fprintf( outFile,"</html>\n" );
fclose( outFile );
}

Something like this -

Code:

void createPage( struct data *a, int num ) { int i; FILE* outFile; char buff2[BUFSIZ]; outFile = fopen( "phaseTwo.html","w" ); /* All HTML files must start with this tag. */ fprintf( outFile,"<html>\n" ); for ( i = 0 ; i < num ; i++, a++ ) { if(a->bold == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"" ); } if(a->italic == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"" ); } if(a->underline == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"" ); } sprintf(buff2,"font); fprintf( outFile,buff2); /* Write to the file HTML representing a line of text. */ fprintf( outFile,"" ); fprintf( outFile,"%s",a->text ); fprintf( outFile,"\n" ); if(a->bold == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"\n" ); } if(a->italic == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"\n" ); } if(a->underline == YES) { fprintf( outFile,"\n" ); } fprintf( outFile,"\n" ); } fprintf( outFile,"</html>\n" ); fclose( outFile ); }

Thanks very much. It works great. Could you help me understand what you have done here:
//you declare another char array "buff2" with the size [BUFSIZ].

char buff2[BUFSIZ]

/// assign the value of a-> font (example 7) to //

sprintf(buff2,"font);
fprintf( outFile,buff2);

I did some research on the sprintf - seems to allow you to use
(char *, const char, char *) correct?

Just trying to make sure I understand this for future use

Quote:

Thanks very much. It works great. Could you help me understand
what you have done here:

//you declare another char array "buff2" with the size [BUFSIZ].

char buff2[BUFSIZ]

Right. This is common practice. Replace 'BUFSIZ' with whatever size you want your buffer to be.

Quote:

/// assign the value of a-> font (example 7) to 

sprintf(buff2,"font);
fprintf( outFile,buff2);

I did some research on the sprintf - seems to allow you to use
(char *, const char, char *) correct?

Close. All of the 'printf' functions, and 'scanf' functions use similar formats:

printf( "constant string", other arguments );

sprintf is the same, except it takes:

sprintf( to_here, "this format", these_arguments );

What happens in the 'printf' type functions is, the first argument is snipped up into chunks, and these chunks are looked at, to see what the following arguments are supposed to be. Thus, when this:

""

is encountered, it sees the "%d" section, and says, "Ah, the next argument is an integer, because that's what '%d' means!". So then, it replaces the "%d" section, with the value of whatever the next argument is, in integer form. So, if 'a->font' is 7, then the resulting code becomes:

""

That help?

Quzah.

Excellent...understand now.

Thanks