Thread: getting this example to compile

I'm using the Turbo C 2.01 compiler for this example that I copied from the book "Hands - on Turbo C" by Larry Joel Goldstein and Larry Gritz. It won't compile because of this line:

if Entry.Name = SearchName then

I tried fix the error myself, but I don't know how to convert the above line to C. It looks like qbasic to me.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <sys\stat.h>

typedef struct {
	char Name[20];
	char Number[12];
} PhoneNum;

int Directory;
int accessmode;
PhoneNum Entry;
char SearchName[20];
int Found;

main()
{ /* PhoneSearch */
	printf("Whose phone number to search for? ");
	gets (SearchName);
	accessmode = O_RDONLY | O_BINARY;
	Directory = open("PHONE", accessmode);
	Found = 0;
	while(!Found && !eof(Directory))
	             if (!strcmp(SearchName,Entry.Name))
/* if Entry.Name = SearchName then */
		   Found = 1;
	             else
		   read(Directory,&Entry,sizeof(Entry));
	close(Directory);
	if(Found)
	   printf("Successful: %s", Entry.Number);
	else
	   printf("Unsucessful\n");
} /* PhoneSearch */

But the results aren't the same.

The program is suppose to search through a file for a person's name and output their phone number.

The file "PHONE" looks something like this:
Dr. Fine 222-2222

and user inputs a search for 'Dr. Fine' and if found the program should output 'success: 222-2222'

I copied the example from a book I'm trying to learn from.


Maybe posting the exact code unmodified from the book will show you better what my problem is.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <sys\stat.h>

typedef struct {
	char Name[20];
	char Number[12];
} PhoneNum;

int Directory;
int accessmode;
PhoneNum Entry;
char SearchName[20];
int Found;

main()
{ /* PhoneSearch */
	printf("Whose phone number to search for? ");
	gets (SearchName);
	accessmode = O_RDONLY | O_BINARY;
	Directory = open("PHONE", accessmode);
	Found = 0;
	while(!Found && !eof(Directory))
	if Entry.Name = SearchName then
		   Found = 1;
	             else
		   read(Directory,&Entry,sizeof(Entry));
	close(Directory);
	if(Found)
	   printf("Successful: %s", Entry.Number);
	else
	   printf("Unsucessful\n");
} /* PhoneSearch */

The book is "Hands - on Turbo C" by Larry Joel Goldstein and Larry Gritz

Ok. That solved that problem. Now I have another one.

Let say "phone" contains:
Dr. Fine 222-222
Dr. Howard 333-333


and Dr. Fine was the first entry and Dr. Howard is the last entry the program won't find the last entry.