Thread: Why doesn't this work

I'm new to c programming and working with little knowledge of it.
I'm writing a program to read a name into the console and split it up into first middle last name.

I've tried many things excluding tolkens because I don't know about them yet. With what I know so far I can't understand why this doesn't work.

Code:

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

char full_name[100];
char first_name[50];
char last_name[50];
int ch;

int main()
{
    printf("Enter full name: ");
    fgets(full_name, sizeof(full_name), stdin);
    if(full_name[0] == ' ')
    {
        printf("Error reading name\n");
        getchar();
        return 1;
    }
    int i=0;
    while(full_name[i]<strlen(full_name))
    {
        strcpy(first_name[i], full_name[i]);
        ++i;
    }      
    printf("First name: %s \n", first_name);
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

the idea I had in mind was a loop that ran from character to character until it read the entire input. Didn't know any other way to do it.

You should compare each charactor to zero

Code:

while(full_name[i])

thx I think that will work to get my loop going. but I still cant figure out how to copy one array to another. I've been trying to do it one character at a time.
I'm thinking strcpy would work but the only way I know how to do it is if I already know the string to copy
ie strcpy(first_name, "Spud")