Nested if Statement problem

Hello there,
I am new to learning C and have been gradually working my way through the basic if statements, at present i'm stuck making the nesting If statement run the way I want in my program.

I have attempted to write a program where the user inputs their age and if the user's age is under 18 the program will print "You're too young!". And if the user is over the age of 18 the user can input their gender and a special message will print out determined by the gender they input.


The problem I have is when the program runs if skips the user option to input their gender and generate the special message.

Here is the code :

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    int age;
    char gender;


    printf("How old are you?\n");
    scanf( "%d",&age );


    printf("Gender? (m/f)\n");
    scanf( "%c", &gender);




    if ( age >= 18 ) {
 
            printf("Welcome");


            if (gender ==  'm')
                {
            printf( "guy");
                }


        if (gender ==  'f')
       
        {
        printf(  "gal");
        }
            }
           
    if (age < 18)
    {
    printf("Too young");
    }


    return 0;
}

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Any advice to where I am going wrong will be appreciated as I have tried hours and hours to find the problem!

scanf("%d") leaves the newline character in the input stream, and scanf("%c") takes the next available character, which is '\n'. To bypass that problem, tell scanf to ignore whitespace by adding a space before the "%c", like this:

Code:

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scanf(" %c", &gender);

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by GReaper

scanf("%d") leaves the newline character in the input stream, and scanf("%c") takes the next available character, which is '\n'. To bypass that problem, tell scanf to ignore whitespace by adding a space before the "%c", like this:

Code:

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scanf(" %c", &gender);

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Thank you that sorted it, wow all that trouble over a space!! ;)

Just a side note - what if the user does not input m or f? How would
your program handle that type of problem?