Thread: program ignoring fgets/scanf!

heyho
i read some about a challenge in C and coded it in a matter of minutes.
the exercise was:
Write a complete program that will ask for a person's name and his or her game score. Then it will ask for a second person's score. The program will print the winner's name and also print by how many points that person won.
heres my code

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	struct data
	{
		char name[256];
		int score;
	} names[2];

	printf("enter the first name: ");
	fgets(names[1].name, sizeof(names[1].name), stdin);
	printf("enter the first score: ");
	scanf("%d", &names[1].score);

	printf("enter the second name: ");
	fgets(names[2].name, sizeof(names[2].name), stdin);
	printf("enter the second score: ");
	scanf("%d", &names[2].score);
	
	if(names[1].score < names[2].score)
	{
		printf("the winner is: ");
		printf("%s\n", names[2].name);
		printf("he won by %d points", names[2].score-names[1].score);
	}
	else
	{
		printf("the winner is: ");
		printf("%s\n", names[1].name);
		printf("he won by %d points", names[1].score-names[2].score);
	}
	return 0;
}

why is the second fgets/scanf statement ignored by my program?
whaa

thanks for that quick answer!

how would i read a number with fgets?