Thread: Confused Student

Don't take Miracle C too seriously. It doesn't conform to the standard much. May I recommend downloading Dev-C++ from www.bloodshed.net (get the latest version 4.9.9.1 I think - it supports both C and the new standard of C++). It's a very good compiler that most of us use.

As for the errors, I'm afraid I can't help much. Look around in some of the compiler options and see if you can toggle between C and C++ mode. Other than that the only thing I can recommend is posting your latest code. (I'm afraid my copy of VS.NET is on another PC right now).

Alright, so I finally got Dev-C++ (many mirrors are down.)

It's much simpler when it comes to C than VS.NET. ...However, when I compile and run the program, it closes immediatley after I input all of my values. My professor mentioned that this might happen, and instructed us to include a char done; variable as well as the command scanf("%c", &done); right before the return0.

...Causing you to have to strike any key inorder to close out the program (because it termintes as soon as it finishes it's required processes.)
...However, I made this change, and it still doesn't seem to do anything. I've even included a printf and none show up after it calculates what it was required to calculate.

Is there something I'm leaving out?
And could anyone please direct me to a source on how to make the 4 inputs only 2?


Thanks for all of your help!

You can run it on the command line and not require the extra code to keep the console open.

This is the FAQ on that - might help you

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

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After reading this:

Originally Posted by kermit

This is the FAQ on that - might help you

http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

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Try something like:
http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284385

which is linked from the FAQ that I posted...

Wierd - same URL, yet I get different results...

I was just saying that I pointed to the page I did because it had a small amount of possibly relevant information, plus it also contained a link pointing to the other FAQ on getting a program to wait for a keypress. But whatever.

Thanks for the help-

I pretty much have that terminating thing resolved, for the most part.

Does anyone have any information on how to do the thing with the input? ...Where I would have 4 variables inputted into 2 scanf prompts? (...each separated by a space, as far as I know)

Could anybody direct me to a reference where I can figure this out?


Thanks again for all of the help!

There are several sites that can help you if you just google for scanf,
but here is the quick answer:

When you use a scanf statment you can have the user input a string of multiple values each separated by a delimiter. For example if you were asking someone to enter a date in month-day-year format you would simply code your scanf in that same format.

Code:

scanf("%d-%d-%d", &month, &day, &year);

When their input is read in the scanf ignores the delimiter that matches up with the same character in the user's input string. In your example you are just using a space as the delimiter.

That about sums it up, thanks for all of your help!