Lookup in lists

I am just practicing my list writing skills. I wrote a few list funcs, such as addnew, lookup etc.
However, when it comes to implementing lookup in main funcs i am a bit cunfused as to what parameters i should use. here is my code:

Code:

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

typedef struct List { char *name; int value; struct List *next;} List;

List *newitem (char *name, int value)
{
        List *newp;
        newp = (List *)calloc(1,sizeof(List));
        newp -> name = name;
        newp -> value = value;
        newp -> next = NULL;
        return newp;
}

List *addfront (List *listp, List *newp)
{
        newp -> next = listp;
        return newp;
}

List *addtoend (List *listp, List *newp)
{
        List *p;
        if (listp == NULL)
                return newp;
        for (p = listp; p-> next != NULL; p = p -> next)
        p -> next = newp;
                return listp;
}

List *lookup (List *listp, char *name)
{
        for ( ;listp != NULL; listp = listp -> next)
                if (strcmp(name, listp -> name) == 0)
                return listp;
        return NULL;
}

int main (void)
{
        char s;
        char j[15];
        List *K = NULL;
        while (s != '.'){
                s = getchar();
        K = newitem (s,K);
        }
        printf("Type a name please:");
        scanf("%s", j);
        lookup(
}

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what would i need to put into the lookup func after a name is read into the array?
thanks

You haven't properly constructed the list yet, so lookup wont work. You haven't got the right parameters to newItem, and you aren't calling addfront or addtoend to build up a list. You have to fix that before you can start trying to get lookup to work.

You might want a char array in the List struct instead of just a char*.