just a suggestion..and 1 question!
OK so since u mentioned in one of your first posts that the size of the array (no. of employees) depends on how many employees the user wishes to input, you could ask the user to input that number right in the beginning & store it in your variable 'size'...
...which actually, i think, leads me to my question...what does the '2' signify in:
while ( scanf("%s%d", staffname[count], &staffnumber[count]) == 2 )
got anything to do with eof?...please advise...
Originally posted by LonelyPlanetWa
>you could ask the user to input that number right in the beginning & store it in your variable 'size'...
Yes you could, but then the array size becomes dynamic, meaning you need to start malloc'ing memory. That's a lesson for another day
>what does the '2' signify in:
>while ( scanf("%s%d", staffname[count], &staffnumber[count]) == 2 )
It is the number of input arguments for which values were successfully scanned and stored. Basically, here we are scanning for %s and %d. If we successfully read one string followed by one int, scanf()'s return code will be 2, and all will be well. If we only read the string (say for example the users enters a letter where they should have entered the number), the return will be 1.
When all else fails, read the instructions.
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