help with the getc function

[Garavix]

Hi, im a newbie C programmer and i need to get a single character input from the keyboard and save it to a variable.

so i tried this (not actually what i tried but a good approximation)

char get_char()
{
     char character = getc(stdin);
     if (character == "y")
     {
          do some stuff
     }
     return character;
}

anywho, thanks in advance

[DLR]

try this:

scanf("%c", &locationtosave)

[Dave_Sinkula]

FAQ.

[Garavix]

to DLR thank you for your constructive response. I was actually considering that as a fall back, but i don't really wanna have to press return after each input....but w/e

to Dave...thanks that a great help...much better than actaully answering my question which would probably take less time than posting a link to a FAQ

[Dave_Sinkula]

tto Dave...thanks that a great help...much better than actaully answering my question which would probably take less time than posting a link to a FAQ

Well, why not try reading it and find that the answer to your question will give likely eventually give you more questions that will not be as sufficiently correct and lead to more questions which eventually lead you to the FAQ, I thought I'd save you a little middleman time. But by all means, go write many lines of code that eventually need to be changed.

Abandon hope all ye who enter user input via scanf without being thoroughly versed in the C standard.

[edit]

(not actually what i tried but a good approximation)

When you want actual help, post actual code.

Oh, and "y" is not a character.

if (character == "y")

(Neither is the value returned by getc.)