Thread: How to read a line and store it into an array?

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone can help me with this problem? For some reason it won't allow me to store the input from the user into a single element of the array for example:

> Please Enter Your Full Name:
David Jones

>Please Enter Your Phone Number:
> Please Enter Your Credit Card Number:

> You Have entered:
Name: David
Phone Number: Jones
Credit Card Number: 3343434343


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See the problem? Once it hits the space it immediately assigns the last name input to the element of the array...

I know you can simply do: scanf("%s %s", name[1], name[2]);

although my code is a bit complicated where I'm using both arrays and structures which is therefore crucial to just read a single line and store it into the array.

I also tried concatenation although I need the space in between the first and last name...

Any help will be great..

Oh and heres a snippet of my code where the problem lies:

Code:

printf("Enter the (First and Last) name for this record:\n");
                            scanf("%s", temp);
                            strcpy(record[reccount].name, temp);
// for some reason it keeps seperating the file once you hit space.
                            printf("Enter the phone number for this record:\n");
                            scanf("%s", temp);
                            strcpy(record[reccount].phoneNo, temp);

Once it hits the space it immediately

That's how it works

Please provide complete (compilable) code.

Without seeing how temp and record and name and .... are defined, most likely you will get little help.

Well temp is just a regular char array i.e. char temp[20] in order to store the string which will then be copied to the structure array called record (which includes the arrays name and phone number).

Code:

printf("Enter the (First and Last) name for this record:\n");
scanf("%[^\n]", record.[reccount].name);