Thread: need help with fgets

well my fgets wont work...it goes directly to the next printf

Code:

case 2: 
printf("Enter text:");
fgets(text, sizeof(text), stdin);
p = strchr( text, '\n' );
if ( p != NULL ) *p = '\0';
printf("\nblah blah blah");
Sleep(3000);
....
....

It dosnt let me enter any text...anyone knows why?

thanks

huh? what do you mean? here is what i get

Code:

2
Enter text:
blah blah blah

i typed 2...so it went to case 2 and then it said Enter text: but it wont let me any time to type anything...it prints blah blah blah right away...

thanks

ok

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <windows.h>
#include <conio.h>


int text1(void);
int text2(void);
int text3(void);
int text4(void);
int text5(void);

int main (void)
{
char text[500];
char *p;
long start;
long end;
int ans;
int display;

printf("Please select one of the two following choice\n\n");
printf("1) Show text\n");
printf("2) Enter a text\n");
scanf("%d", &ans);

switch (ans)
{
case 1:
printf("Which text do you want to display?\n");
printf("1) Text 1\n");
printf("2) Text 2\n");
printf("3) Text 3\n");
printf("4) text 4\n");
printf("5) Text 5\n");
scanf("%d", &display);

switch (display)
{
case 1: //text1();
break;
case 2: //text2();
break;
case 3: //text3();
break;
case 4: //text4();
break;
case 5: //text5();
default: printf("Invalid input\n");
break;
}

case 2:
printf("Enter text:");
fgets(text, sizeof(text), stdin);
p = strchr( text, '\n' );
if ( p != NULL ) *p = '\0';
printf("\nblah blah blah");
Sleep(3000);
...
...

sorry the code looks bad a little...

Yeah, you're mixing scanf with fgets

Do one of these two things

Code:

scanf("%d", &ans);
while ( getchar() != '\n' );  /* remove excess chars */

Or

Code:

fgets(text, sizeof(text), stdin);
sscanf( text, "%d", &ans);

ok thanks it works fine now.