Thread: Why this do-while loop doesn't work as I expected?

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    Why this do-while loop doesn't work as I expected?

    I just started writing this program... There will be more code inside main, but it already doesn't work as I expected it to...
    What it does is: it runs correctly once, and then after execution it runs again, but without stopping for user input? Did I do something wrong???
    Code:
    int main()
    {
    
    
    	char again = 'y';
    	char inputstring[512] = "One, two, three.";
    	char *inputptr;
    	inputptr = inputstring;
    	
    	
    	
    	do
    	{
    		{
    		printf("Enter an English text. Use no more than 511 characters, including white spaces.\n");
    		gets(inputstring);
    		printf("The text you entered was: ");
    		printf(inputstring);
    
    
    		}
    
    
    
    
    
    
    	printf("\nWould you like to enter another text?");
    	again = getchar();
    
    	}
    	while (again == 'y' || again =='Y');
    
    }
    Thanks...

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    Thanks a lot, every single time I'm learning something new here...

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    accordingly to your prog.

    why not ...

    char again ='Y';

    do {
    ..
    ..
    ..
    ..
    } while (toupper(again) == 'Y' );

    >> more faster coding.

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    The statement:

    if( x == 'a' || x == 'A' )

    Is more than likely as fast, if not faster, than the following statement:

    if( toupper( x ) == 'A' )

    The reason being, the first test does at most two comparisions. The second does one comparision, but has the overhead of either processing a macro (ie: a math operation in changing x to an upper case) or calling a function.

    In which case, the first is likely the faster of the two.

    Quzah.
    Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

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    I'm not supposed to use anything from <ctype.h>, so... toupper would be out of question anyway...
    But thanks.

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