Grrrr!

[Granger9]

In the code below what I want to do is ask the user if he wants to play the game or not but the scanf doesn't work can you please tell me whats going wrong

#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>


int main()
{
clrscr();
char name[50], a;


printf("\nPROJECT BEASTS\n");
printf("Welcome to Project Beasts please enter your name:");
scanf("%s", &name);
printf("\nOk %s do you want to play the game (y/n):", name);
scanf("%c", &a);
printf("%c", a);

return 0;
}

[no-one]

that code works for me, what kind of problems/errors is it giving you, specifically.

[JoshG]

scanf("%s", &name);

I do not think you need the & in front of name, I do not know if that is making it not work though, it shouldn't.

[edit]
if you are getting a compile error, put clrscr() after you declare name and a.
[/edit]

[MrWizard]

Try looking up fgets( )

[Granger9]

When i execute the program it does everything correctly apart from the last scanf. The program just doesn't peform the last scanf.

[The Dog]

Most probably because there's something left in the input buffer.

After a call to scanf(), or any input function for that matter, you should flush the input stream, iow get rid of all unnecessary newline characters and such unwanted things.

Read this. Prelude's post explains it.