Thread: I need help to compile this code...

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    You can't just replace all occurances of "gets" with "fgets" in your code. (The errors are because fgets takes an extra parameter.) Try this:
    Code:
    gets(s);
    ->
    Code:
    char s[SOMETHING], *p;
    fgets(s, sizeof(s), stdin);
    if((p = strchr(s, '\n'))) *p = 0;
    Note that s must be an array and you must have included <string.h>.
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    thanks for you help guys

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    I am assuming gets reads standard input so you need to
    tell fgets that so...par example

    gets(filename);

    would become

    fgets(stdin,filename);

    Basically you are telling fgets which file to read.

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