hey, i'm having problems taking in a string of characters and telling the program what to do once this is done. basically i just want a yes / no response and for the program to go to a function given each response. so how could i accomplish this? thanks

#define ANSWER_SIZE 10 /* define the size of the answer string */ char answer[ANSWER_SIZE]; /* prompt and get answer */ printf("yes or no?\n"); fgets(answer,ANSWER_SIZE,stdin); /* remove the newline from the end of the response */ answer[strlen(answer)-1] = '\0'; if (strcmp(answer,"yes") == 0) { . . do yes stuff . . } else if (strcmp(answer,"no") == 0) { . . do no stuff . . } else { . . do not yes/not no stuff . . } Be sure to come back and let us know if our suggestions helped!

for some reason Dev-C++ isn't liking me and it skips straight through the input portion right to analyzing whatevers in the variable. did i do something wrong? printf("Would you like to load this level: %s\n", level); printf("Enter yes or no: \n"); fgets(loadlevel,ANSWER_SIZE,stdin); /*Remove new line from end of input*/ loadlevel[strlen(loadlevel)-1] = '\0'; if (strcmp(loadlevel, "no") == 0) { nope(); } else if(strcmp(loadlevel, "yes") == 0) { lvlchk(lvl); } else { printf("I'm sorry, %s is not a valid response.\n", loadlevel); start(menu, stage); } also, why did you define ANSWER_SIZE? is there an advantage to doing it this way over say: char answer[10]; ?

no response..so i'll take that as a yes. actually i'm just quoting myself from a completely dif. situation.. but yea. still curious as to what i did wrong.... lol :)

Assuming that loadlevel and ANSWER_SIZE are defined/declared appropriately, I don't see a problem. The only thing that I can think of is to check the return value from fgets(). If it returns NULL, then it's not working, tho I don't see a problem. If it works, is should return the address of the array loadlevel. Be sure to come back and let us know if our suggestions helped!