Reading Characters of an argument.

[code_lover]

Greetings ,
I wrote a function that will be removing non alpha characters and copy name or word for name .My problem is I am confused how to pass the argument or string to my function so that anywhere I call the function ,the function will know which of the string or argument to read .I need help on how to do this .This is my function.

int get_Name( char *name ) {

        int c;
        while( c = getchar()!=EOF && !isalpha(c) ) {
            ;
        }
        if( c == EOF ) {
            ;
        }

        *name = c;
        name = name + 1;
        while( c = getchar()!=EOF && isalpha(c)) {
            *name = c;
            name = name + 1;
        }
        *name = '\0';
        return 0;
    }

[laserlight]

Functions should do one thing and do it well. If you want to write a function for "removing non alpha characters", then it should operate on the string by removing non-alphabetic characters. It should not also be reading from stdin.

[code_lover]

Since arguments are strings ....Is there not any how I can pass an argument or string as a parameter to my function above ???

[laserlight]

Since arguments are strings ....Is there not any how I can pass an argument or string as a parameter to my function above ???

You can pass a string as an argument to your function. What exactly is the problem?

The problem that I do see is what I pointed out to you: it is not about argument passing, but about what the function does.