I've been trying to look for answer myself, but I can't find one.
I want to insert a part of the programming that reads in a string like "Hello" and stores and can display it when I want, so that printf("%s", blah);
produces Hello
.
Here's the code part that's giving me trouble
char name[64];
scanf_s("%s", name);
printf("Your name is %s", name);
I know that printf
isn't the problem; the program crashes after something is input after a prompt. Please help?
From the specification of fscanf_s()
in Annex K.3.5.3.2 of the ISO/IEC 9899:2011 standard:
The fscanf_s
function is equivalent to fscanf
except that the c
, s
, and [
conversion
specifiers apply to a pair of arguments (unless assignment suppression is indicated by a
*
). The first of these arguments is the same as for fscanf
. That argument is
immediately followed in the argument list by the second argument, which has type
rsize_t
and gives the number of elements in the array pointed to by the first argument
of the pair. If the first argument points to a scalar object, it is considered to be an array of
one element.
and:
The scanf_s
function is equivalent to fscanf_s
with the argument stdin
interposed before the arguments to scanf_s
.
MSDN says similar things (scanf_s()
and fscanf_s()
).
Your code doesn't provide the length argument, so some other number is used. It isn't determinate what value it finds, so you get eccentric behaviour from the code. You need something more like this, where the newline helps ensure that the output is actually seen.
char name[64];
if (scanf_s("%s", name, sizeof(name)) == 1)
printf("Your name is %s\n", name);
I used this very often in my university classes so this should work fine in Visual Studio (tested in VS2013):
char name[64]; // the null-terminated string to be read
scanf_s("%63s", name, 64);
// 63 = the max number of symbols EXCLUDING '\0'
// 64 = the size of the string; you can also use _countof(name) instead of that number
// calling scanf_s() that way will read up to 63 symbols (even if you write more) from the console and it will automatically set name[63] = '\0'
// if the number of the actually read symbols is < 63 then '\0' will be stored in the next free position in the string
// Please note that unlike gets(), scanf() stops reading when it reaches ' ' (interval, spacebar key) not just newline terminator (the enter key)
// Also consider calling "fflush(stdin);" before the (eventual) next scanf()
Ref: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w40768et.aspx
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[64];
printf("Enter your name: ");
scanf("%s", name);
printf("Your name is %s\n", name);
return 0;
}
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[64];
printf("Enter your name: ");
gets(name);
printf("Your name is %s\n", name);
return 0;
}
you should do this : scanf ("%63s", name);