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Ah apologies for my "bad answer". Im new, and was just trying to help.

Salem, maybe you can provide the correct way to do it (without declaring a string)?

possibly. feel free to post your full code, assuming it is not too long. In the meantime, about this function.. test it out on its own. Open a new .c file, and type the following...



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Actually, my code above worked perfectly fine for me..

I was thinking to keep it simple :) but then again, Im pretty new. See the following...
-Deep



int Get_Line_Ammount()
{
int amm_of_lines;

// this is your priming read

Hi,
The following line is your problem..both outside of the loop, and inside of it.

return_value = scanf("\n%d", &amm_of_lines);

you dont really need the "return_value =" part. replace...