why "Invalid Gender!"?

[Ambus Dondon]

im having a problem here.. my program always output Invalid Gender! after I input the gender and status.. #include stdio.h> /*Ambus*/ int main() { char stat[10], gend[10]; int rCTR, mmCTR, fsCTR; clrscr(); mmCTR = 0; fsCTR = 0; for (rCTR = 1; rCTR <= 10; rCTR++) { JJ:printf("\n Record %d \n",rCTR); printf("Input your gender:"); scanf("%s",&gend); printf("Input your civil status:"); scanf("%s",&stat); if(gend == "female") { if(stat == "single") fsCTR++; else if(stat == "married"); else { printf("Invalid civil status!"); goto JJ; } } else if(gend == "male") { if(stat == "married") mmCTR++; else if(stat == "single"); else { printf("Invalid civil status!"); goto JJ; } } else { printf("Invalid gender!"); goto JJ; } } printf("Single females=%d, Married males=%d, Number of Records=%d.", mmCTR, fsCTR, rCTR-1); return 0; }

[Lost User]

if(gend == "female")

That is not a valid way to compare strings in C. You need to use one of the string compare functions: see strcmp, wcscmp, _mbscmp[^]. It is also a bad idea to use the goto statement, use loops instead.

[Jochen Arndt]

You are comparing a character array (a pointer) with a pointer to a constant string:

if(gend == "female")

Those pointers will never be identical. If you want to compare strings (the content pointed to by the pointers), you must compare each element (character) of the strings. There is the strcmp[^] C standard library function to do this:

if (!strcmp(gend, "female"))

;P

[Victor Nijegorodov]

I wonder: what IDE / compiler are you using? Isn't the debugging possible? :confused:

[Ambus Dondon]

ohh.. i see.. thank you very much :3

[Ambus Dondon]

it is possible.. btw im just a beginner :3