Thread: making a phone book directory

i need to write a program that reads in a file containing a person's name, address, and phone number and then be able to:

following options should be in main menu

1.add friends
2.modify friend details
3.display all my friends
4.search friends
5.remove friends from buddy book
6 exit

Any help that can be provided would be greatly appreciated. I just need a little help getting started(reading the file into a list).

Thanks

this small part i coded

Code:

#include <string.h>
int i;
int number_of_entries;
typedef struct
{
        char first [15];
		  char last [15];
		  char phone [15];
		  }
		  phonebook;

main ()
{
phonebook entry[50];
int response;

printf("\n\tPhonebook\n\n");
printf("(1)Add Friend\n");

scanf("%d", &response);

switch (response)
{
case 1:
     number_of_entries++;
	  printf("Enter First Name: ");
     scanf("%s", entry[i].first);
	  printf("Enter Last Name: ");
	  scanf("%s", entry[i].last);
	  printf("Enter Phone Number: ");
	  scanf("%s", entry[i].phone);
	  return 0;

}
}

Originally Posted by MK27

Hmmm. You have a return in your switch/case which should probably not be there -- I think you meant to use break?

Beware some problems which may arise with scanf();

STDIN pitfalls

i didn't get it friend.
can you suggest how should i start coding?

Replace the current "return 0;" , with "break;"

Then change main() to int main (), and add "return 0; as the last line, immediately before the last }.

In C, main always should return an integer.

I would also consider to wrap the code in the case statement in a function. That will keep things clearer when you add case statements later, and also make it easier to test them out of context.

You'll also need to increment i after you add info and make sure that i doesn't exceed the size of your phonebook array.