Thread: Creating a Menu in C

Hi, and thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

I have written 6 small programs and am trying to create a menu that allows the user to view whichever one they wish by calling from that file. I have written the code below for a menu but I don't know how to actually add in the programs themselves. Do they need to be in the same folder? Can the file names have spaces? Do I declare them somewhere at the beginning and then have the relevant one in the case statements?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

/*Main Menu*/


int main ()
{
    int choice;


    printf("\n \t\t Programs \n");
    printf("----------------------------------------------- \n");
    printf("\t 1. Example Program 1 \n");
    printf("\t 2. Example Program 2 \n");
    printf("\t 3. Example Program 3 \n");
    printf("\t 4. Example Program 4 \n");
    printf("\t 5. Example Program 5 \n");
    printf("\t 6. Example Program 6 \n");
    printf("\t 0. Exit \n\n");
    


    printf("Please choose which program you would like:  \n");
    scanf("%d", &choice);
    printf("Choice = %d \n", choice);
    
    switch (choice)
    {
        case 1 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 1 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 2 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 2 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 3 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 3 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 4 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 4 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 5 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 5 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 6 : printf("You have chosen program %d:Example Program 6 \n", choice) ; break;
        case 0 : printf("You have chosen %d to exit \n", choice) ; return ; break;


        default : printf("This is not a valid choice. Please choose again"); break;
    } 
    
    
    return 0;
}

Thanks again.

my suggestion is to just copy and paste each program under each case. Sorry if I didn't help haha

You may just need something like this, using system().
Spaces in filenames can be dealt with using quotes.

Code:

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

int main(void) {
    int n = -1;
    while (n != 0) {
        printf("1) one\n2) two\n0) quit\n>>> ");
        scanf("%d", &n);
        switch (n) {
        case 0: break;
        case 1: system("'./one o rama'"); break;
        case 2: system("./two"); break;
        default: printf("unknown option\n");
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

I haven't tested on windows. It may need to be double quotes:

Code:

        case 1: system("\"./one o rama\""); break;