I'm writing a program in C on my MacBook which uses Mojave and I'm trying to use fgets() to get a string from stdin.
My code compiles - the only issue is that when I run the program in the terminal, after fgets() is called and I type in the desired input, I can't figure out how to signal the end of the input so that the program can continue running.
I recognise many people have had this issue and that there are many pages on this site addressing it. But none of the solutions (that I have understood) have worked for me. I've read this and this but these aren't helping.
I've checked out the documentation for fgets() which says:
"fgets() reads in at most one less than size characters from stream and stores them into the buffer pointed to by s. Reading stops after an *EOF* or a newline. If a newline is read, it is stored into the buffer. A terminating null byte (\0) is stored after the last character in the buffer." - from this page.
Entering 'stty all' in the terminal shows that EOF indeed corresponds to ^D. I've tried entering ^D twice, three times, pressing Enter then ^D, ^D then Enter, etc. etc. Nothing seems to work.
What am I doing wrong? Here's the relevant bit of the code (originally from here, under the 'Pointers to Structures Containing Pointers' section):
#include <stdio.h>
typedef struct
{
char name[21];
char city[21];
char phone[21];
char *comment;
} Address;
int main(void)
{
Address s;
char comm[100];
fgets(s.name, 20, stdin);
fgets(s.city, 20, stdin);
fgets(s.phone, 20, stdin);
fgets(comm, 100, stdin);
return 0;
}
