Thread: strcmp

hi everyone!
i have a small problem. should be obvious by the error but im stumped.

Code:

void getname ( void )
{
    char fname[BUFSIZ];
    char lname[BUFSIZ];
    int check;
    printf(" enter customers names type( quit ) to stop\n");
    while ( strcmp ( fname[check], "quit" ) != 0){
    printf( "customers first name:\n");
    fgets(fname, sizeof fname , stdin);
    printf( "customers last name:\n");
    fgets( lname, sizeof lname , stdin );
    check++;
}
  
}

edit: 80 C:\Dev-Cpp\names.c [Warning] passing arg 1 of `strcmp' makes pointer from integer without a cast

i tried

Code:

strcmp (fname, "quit") you want to compare the full fname to quit

still dont work.
is there a better way to do this?

did you remove the newline character from fname?

and if it were me, I'd test fname and lname for quit after they were entered, since even if the user types quit for fname, you're still going to make them enter lname it looks like, which I doubt is what you want

why did the person that wrote fgets add a newline instead of a \0
and why hasnt it been changed?
just curious