Thread: Storing User Input in a Linked List

Hello, I'm try to making an address book and I'm stumped on how to store strings entered by the user into a node in the linked list.

This is the struct I have defined.

Code:

struct node{
    
    char name[25];
    char address[100];
    char phone[25];
    
    struct node *next;
    
};

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Code:

void append(){


    struct node *temp = (struct node*) malloc(sizeof(struct node)); 
    
    if(root == NULL){    // Empty list
        
        printf("Enter Name: ");


        fgets(temp->name,25,stdin);
        temp->name[strlen(temp->name)-1] = '\0';
    }
    
}

The issue is that the fgets() function is not called instead I return to the options menu I have created in main, and I'm not sure as to why that is happening. I don't want to use scanf because I expect users to enter strings white space i.e name: "John Doe", and I don't want them to enter a string larger than the buffer.

Any help would be nice. Thank You.