C Programming[Solved]

[Evolt_Pratom]

#include #include
#include
struct students {
char name[20];
int age;
};

void main(){

struct students firstyear\_bex\[5\];
for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
	puts("Enter your name:");
	gets(firstyear\_bex\[i\].name);
	puts("\\n");
	puts("Enter your age:");
	scanf("%d",&firstyear\_bex\[i\].age);
	
}
puts("\\n");
for(int i=0;i<5;i++){
	puts(firstyear\_bex\[i\].name);
	puts("\\t");
	printf("%d",firstyear\_bex\[i\].age);
	puts("\\n");
}

}

i am a real begineer and i wanted to ask for the name and the details and display it like it is. but when i run it, the outputs are a bit funny, i dont get the proper order of printouts and when i enter something more it does nothing, but if i keep on entering it will take it but show all of it at the end with not the proper order. please help. . i use mingw gcc compiler

[Lost User]

Evolt_Pratom wrote:

the outputs are a bit funny

What does that actually mean? Please explain exactly what inputs you enter and what results you see; we cannot guess. OK, I see the problem. You are using scanf to read the age, which leaves a carriage return character in the input buffer. So your next call to gets will read that as an empty string and continue on to request the age. Add a call to gets(xxx) after the scanf call, where xxx is a dummy buffer, e.g. char xxx[5];.

[k5054]

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

Add a call to gets(xxx) after the scanf call, where xxx is a dummy buffer, e.g. char xxx[5];.

I think adding a carriage return to the end of the scanf format string will also work, will it not?

[Lost User]

I tried that myself and it did not. It's about time scanf was consigned to the trash where it belongs.

[Evolt_Pratom]

i dont know what happened but i used scanf instead of gets and it worked. Love to know how it happened tho.

[Lost User]

I explained how in my earlier message.