Format and Undefined Symbols error.

Hello everyone.

I am new to C programming and I am following the O'Reilly book called Practical C 3rd Edition.

I was trying to write a problem that reads a line from the keyboard and reports its length. I am writing my code based on what I have learned in the chapter. Below is the following code I used to do what I mentioned above:

Code:

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//
//  length.c
// 
//
//  Created by Manuel Velez on 2/10/12.
//  Copyright (c) 2012 AEVTech. All rights reserved.
//


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


char line[100]; // Line we are looking at


int main()
{
   
    printf("Enter a line: ");
    fget(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
   
    printf("The length of the line is: %d\n", strlen(line));
    return (0);
}

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When I try to build the program with cc I get the following error:

Code:

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Manuel-Velezs-MacBook-Pro:c_files Manolo$ cc -g -o length length.c
length.c: In function ‘main’:
length.c:20: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘size_t’
length.c:20: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘size_t’
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_fget", referenced from:
      _main in ccyXoU0g.o
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

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I'm not too sure where to go from here. I went back to the chapter and read everything again but I'm just not seeing what I did wrong. I would be thankful for any help possible even if it's just sending me the right way to begin finding why I'm getting this error. Thank you to everyone in advanced!

First, the function is fgets(), not fget()

Second, to print a size_t using a new compiler (which you seem to have), you have to be rather more specific.

Try one of these

Code:

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printf("The length of the line is: %d\n", (int)strlen(line));
printf("The length of the line is: %lu\n", (unsigned long)strlen(line));
printf("The length of the line is: %zd\n", strlen(line));

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The last example is the best one.

Thank you!!!!! I can't believe I did not see that I was missing a "s" in fgets. I need to get my eyes corrected! lol

I also used the first print statement you sent and everything works perfect! Thank you so very much for your help. I have also looked up the info on the other ways you did the print statements to get a better understanding as I am sure I am going to run into those again. Thanks!! :)