Need help

[jhp1025]

I am not getting the desired output from this program.
It should print out the entered Month and Day after the user enters at the prompt.

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

#define LSIZE 81

void seperate();
int main()


{
	char date[LSIZE];
	char tempmonth[15];
	int tempday;
	
	printf("Enter a Month and Day (ex. Februaury 15) :");
	
	sscanf(date, "%s %d", &tempmonth, &tempday);	
	  
	seperate (date);
	
	printf("The Month you entered was %c\n", tempmonth);
	printf("The Day you entered was %d\n", tempday);
	
	return 0;
	
}

	void seperate(char strng[])

{

	int i = 0;
	char c;
	
	while (i< (LSIZE-1) && (c = getchar()) != '\n')
	
	{
	
		strng[i] = c;
		i++;
	}
	
	strng[i] = '\0';
	
}

[Salem]

Use %s, not %c to print.

[jhp1025]

I tried that and got symbols on the first printed line.

Thank you

[Salem]

What does your separate() function do, since you don't print the answer it returns.

[jhp1025]

It prints an up arrow for the tempmonth

it prints the 2293496 for the tempday

I get the same results regardless of the user input.

[Salem]

OIC, you're using sscanf(), to read from an UNINITIALISED string, rather than scanf() from stdin.

But it seems that perhaps you should call seperate() to initialise date BEFORE calling sscanf to parse it.

[jhp1025]

Thank you.

I tried that and the %s in place of %c and that did it.

I appreciate your help.

JP