Thread: Can't get a variable to be put in memory (or however that's supposed to be phrased)

For the variable pettoremove, I can't get the scanf to work and the program doesn't work if I don't preset pettoremove a number. That number never changes, and I don't know why and I can't make it work. Is it because it's in a look, I have to use pointers somehow?

Code:

void deletepet(pet petarray[], int numberofpets)
{
	int pettoremove=9;
	int validentry=0;
	while (validentry==0)
	{
		printf("Enter the number of the pet you want to remove from the archive: ");
		fflush(stdin);
		scanf("&d", &pettoremove);
		printf("%d\n", pettoremove);
		printf("%d\n", numberofpets);
		if (pettoremove<=numberofpets)
		{
			printf("That's totally a valid entry\n");
			validentry=1;
		}
		else
		{
			printf("That's not a valid entry\n");
		}
	}
	printf("So I made sure bad stuff won't happen, now CODE MOAR STUFF HERE\n");
}

1) Congrats for posting in CODE tags. However, please post compilable code. A main(), includes, etc.
2) When you compile, do you have warnings turned on? I don't think so. Do that. You'd see immediately that

Code:

scanf("&d", &pettoremove);

has a problem.

K, I found the problem. %d instead of &d. I do have warnings turned on, but I didn't realize I had made a mistake until you pointed it out, so thanks.

If your compiler didn't complain about that line, get another. ;-)

Originally Posted by mike65535

If your compiler didn't complain about that line, get another. ;-)

Nonono, what I meant was there was a warning for that problem, but when I couldn't find anything wrong I stopped looking at that and tried stupid stuff with pointers. Like if you're looking for a book you lost, you're looking all over your house, but it turns out it was in the bookshelf all along.