Thread: Structures and arrays problem

Hey so i am using Dev C++ compiler on Windows 7 and was programming a piece of code that is supposed to do the following -

Create a structure to store information about products for sale in a store. It should store information about the product name, the price, and the product number and then create an array of products called Inventory. Add five products to your inventory.

But for some reason, which is unknown to me, I always seem to get a complier error.
Any suggestions and input will be gladly taken

and this is what i have so far -

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>


struct product{
char name[30];
int product_number;
double price;
}


void initProducts();


int main() {
    product inventory[5];
    initProducts(inventory);
    printf("\n\n");
    system("pause");
}


void initProducts() {
     for(int i=0; i<5; i++) {
             printf("\n\nEnter the name of the product: ");
             scanf("%s", inventory[i].name);
             fflush(stdin);
             
             printf("\n\nEnter the product number of the product: ");
             scanf("%d", inventory[i].product_number);
             fflush(stdin);
             
             printf("\n\nEnter the price of the product: ");
             scanf("%f", inventory[i].price);
             fflush(stdin);
    }
}

The struct declaration doesn't look like - you're missing the semi-colon at the closing brace.

products inventory[5] is local to main; the initProducts function doesn't have access to it. Either pass it as a parameter (ideal) or make it global (yuk).

Code:

#define MAX_ENTRY 5

typedef struct
{  
     // fields
} products;

void initProducts(products *); // prototype

main
    products inventory[MAX_ENTRY] = { 0 };
    initProducts(inventory);
    ...

void initProducts(products *tmp)
{
    for(i=0; i < MAX_ENTRY; ++i)
    {
         // store name
         scanf("%d", &tmp[i].product_number);
         scanf("%lf", &tmp[i].price);
    }
}

I don't think you'd want to use fflush(stdin) either; the last I heard, it was undefined for input streams.

whenever you get a compiler error, you should make note of it in your topic.

oh, that semi-colon
and functions, gonna take some time for me to fully grasp that concept
thanks guys !!!!