Get Text from User Input Using C
I Am Just Learning C and Making a Basic "Hello, Name" Program. I Have Got It Working to Read the User's Input but It Is Output as Numbers and Not What They...
I am just learning C and making a basic "hello, NAME" program. I have got it working to read the user's input but it is output as numbers and not what they enter?
What am I doing wrong?
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[20];
printf("Hello. What's your name?\n");
scanf("%d", &name);
printf("Hi there, %d", name);
getchar();
return 0;
}
4 Answers
You use the wrong format specifier %d- you should use %s. Better still use fgets - scanf is not buffer safe.
Go through the documentations it should not be that difficult:
Sample code:
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
char name[20];
printf("Hello. What's your name?\n");
//scanf("%s", &name); - deprecated
fgets(name,20,stdin);
printf("Hi there, %s", name);
return 0;
}
Input:
The Name is Stackoverflow
Output:
Hello. What's your name?
Hi there, The Name is Stackov
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[20];
printf("Hello. What's your name?\n");
scanf("%s", name);
printf("Hi there, %s", name);
getchar();
return 0;
}
When we take the input as a string from the user, %s is used. And the address is given where the string to be stored.
scanf("%s",name);
printf("%s",name);
hear name give you the base address of array name. The value of name and &name would be equal but there is very much difference between them. name gives the base address of array and if you will calculate name+1 it will give you next address i.e. address of name[1] but if you perform &name+1, it will be next address to the whole array.
change your code to:
int main()
{
char name[20];
printf("Hello. What's your name?\n");
scanf("%s", &name);
printf("Hi there, %s", name);
getchar();
getch(); //To wait until you press a key and then exit the application
return 0;
}
This is because, %d is used for integer datatypes and %s and %c are used for string and character types
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