Thread: Need help solving simple C question, need help with code

What the programme is suppose to do: User will enter a name and if its "JACK SON BOY", the progamme will state that he is a douchebag else progamme will state that he is not a douchebag. Help me check whats wrong with my code

Here is my code

Code:

//"Are you a douchebag test"//
#include <stdio.h>
char main()
{
    char name;
    printf("Enter you name/n");
    scanf(%c,&name);
    if (name == JACK SON BOY)
    printf( " you are a douchebag\n");
    else if (name != JACK SON BOY )
    printf(" you are not a douchebag\n");
    return 0;
}

Thanks in advance

- You are declaring main wrong, it should normally be int main(void) or int main(int argc, char *argv[])
- your newline character is wrong, it should be \n not /n.
- name is just a single char, it cannot contain the entire name, you need to change it into an array of chars
- your scanf statement is wrong, the first argument should be in quotes, and it will only read a single char into name, since you are using %c (%s is used for strings)
- you cannot compare strings with the == operator, you must resort to strcmp(...) from string.h
- you need to indent your code properly


Good work there, almost as many errors as lines of code

haha thanks so much

Originally Posted by qawsed51

What the programme is suppose to do: User will enter a name and if its "JACK SON BOY", the progamme will state that he is a douchebag else progamme will state that he is not a douchebag. Help me check whats wrong with my code

Best way to fix your code.... Climb into a C Programming textbook and start reading...