Thread: printf problem

Hello forum,

I am new to C and programmin in general, but very interested!

I am reading, "Absolute beginners guide to C" by:Greg Parry. And towards the beginning of the book he gives a very simple "printf" example, just to display some words on screen, and I wrote this program in Dev bloodshed and the consol just flickered onscreen and then disappeared a milisecond later.

Any help as to how I can make it stay on screen would be very helpful.

Thank you

servant of Pluto,

Thank you very much.

Forgive my inpertanence, but the FAQ didn't tell me what code to write to fix it.



Any help on the subject would be appreciated.Thank you

Servant of Pluto

please forgive my impertinence, but I did not understand te FAQ, what do I write?

What command keeps the window open?

This is what i wrote but it still flashes!:

Code:

 #include <stdio.h>
main()
getchar()
{
      
      printf("this stuff is easy!\n");
      return 0;
}

Just fixing a typo here

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("this stuff is easy!\n");
    getchar();
    return 0;
}

plutoismyhome: you need to put a semicolon ';' after the getchar().

My bad, a semicolon missed.

EDIT: Fixed

ssharish

You can also do it this way:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("this stuff is easy!\n");
    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

Originally Posted by +Azazel+

You can also do it this way:

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("this stuff is easy!\n");
    system("PAUSE");
    return 0;
}

getchar() is way more portable. Besides, calling the shell is slow and considered a bad habit, if the point is simply to pause the execution.

Besides, using system should really never be necessary. In windows, everything you could ever achieve by using the oh-so limited cmd, could be achieved by using the API.