thondal

so what you are saying is that i have to stick with the getchar(); if i want to see my program? or start it trough the cmd command? Or wait until later for more complex ways to make the program wait?

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DaWei

Either 1 or 2. I don't know what you mean by 3. It isn't a terribly serious issue. It's just the result of the way the world works, so to speak. I don't know why anyone would want to complicate it. I mean, you could put an endless loop there and hope your system offered up ways to terminate that other than pulling the plug from the wall. Personally, I wouldn't bother, I'd move on to productive stuff.

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thondal

when i said more complex ways of making the program wait i meant like you said for example an endless loop but anyhow i'm just learning c right now, so i'll guess i'll stick with printf and scanf for now....

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lectricpharaoh

Ugh, scanf() is overrated. Stick to using gets() to fill an alloca() buffer.

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Ooble

gets is evil. Didn't your C book teach you that?

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lectricpharaoh

Actually, it was the C programming Fidonet group, but yeah. So is alloca() in most cases. I guess my facetious comments don't travel well over this medium, though I thought people would recognize my recipe for 'stack overflow'.

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thondal

sure sure... but mabye it would have been an idea to let me get to that i'm still at the beginning so for now scanf and printf.... :o

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DaWei

Scanf and family are loaded with pitfalls for the novice. If you use it, understand it and use it correctly. You might want to read here.

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lectricpharaoh

Since you said you're using DevC++, why not just use C++ stream I/O? It has its own idiosyncrasies, but on the whole, it's much easier to use in most cases, from the programmer's point of view.

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DaWei

It's the C forum. No fair cheating with the compiler if you're studying C .

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