Thread: change what printf says depending on function arguments

i have the following function that someone kindly did for me that i have modified slightly so that it gets information from the user like number of players and their names rather than just the names.

Code:

int get_input(char line[], int linesize)
{

    if (!fgets(line, linesize, stdin))
    {
        // maybe the user triggered EOF or something, so for our purposes, bail out:
        fprintf(stderr, "Error: unexpected end-of-file or read failure\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }

    char *newline = strchr(line, '\n');
    if (!newline) //name too long
    {
        printf("Incorrect Entry: name must have a length of no more than %d characters\n",
               linesize - 1);
        flush_line();
        return 0;
    }

    if (newline == line)
    {
        printf("Incorrect Entry: name cannot be blank\n");
        return 0;
    }

    *newline = '\0';

    return 1;
}

i pass into it the line array and size of the array so i can modify the buffer size accordingly however the if statement that checks for the \n character is fine if im looking for a string it reports the length accordingly. however to get a single number i have to pass into it line[3] which then says it wants an input of 2 characters.

is there a way i can change the argument that printf takes according to what i am looking for.
many thanks
coop

thats what i have in the function for getting the number of players i pass the string back to it and then use sscanf to extract the number and rather than just repeating your code i modified it slightly