Thread: Trouble with scanning 2 strings in same scanf call

Somehow only str2 is succesfully scanned and str1 is not printed

Code:

   printf("\n\n  Please enter two times in this way xx.xx xx.xx now ");
   scanf("%s%s", str1, str2);
   printf("\n\n  %s - %s:\n", str1, str2));

result : - str2:

This is incorrect. Assuming you type two separate strings (ie separated by spaces with no other punctuation), they are both picked up by scanf.

Note: I have assumed you have declared str1 and str2 as char arrays, or char pointers pointing to separate pieces of memory. If you have (for instance) pointed them at the same piece of memory, then that can also cause errors.

So should i have two separate scanf calls or is it possible with 1?, i tried writing scanf("%5s%5s", str1, str2); to no avail

What you have works; or if it doesn't work, the error is elsewhere. In other words this code:

Code:

#include<stdio.h>

int main(void) {

    char str1[80], str2[80];
    printf("\n\n Please enter two times in this way xx.xx xx.xx now ");
    scanf("%s%s", str1, str2);
    printf("\n\n %s - %s:\n", str1, str2);
    return 0;
}

correctly gives you two different strings:

Code:

C:\Users\tabstop\Desktop>temp

 Please enter two times in this way xx.xx xx.xx now 22.25 23.15

 22.25 - 23.15:

C:\Users\tabstop\Desktop>