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user14528515
user14528515

Reputation:

Input String through 2-D array

I have seen other similar question but none of them solved my problem.

char name[30][15];
  
int i, n, found=0;
printf("Enter how many names you want to enter:");
scanf("%d", &n);
printf("Enter names of %d friends:", n);
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
  scanf("%s", name[i]);
    printf("Names are: ");
for (i=0; i<n; i++)
  printf("%s\n", name[i]);

If I run this code, its runs properly but how can we input 1-D array when the array we defined is 2-D. Is the no of columns defined by default if we use name[i].
if I modify this code, it shows error.--

char name[30][15];
   
    int i, n, found=0;
    printf("Enter how many names you want to enter:");
    scanf("%d", &n);
    printf("Enter names of %d friends:", n);
    for (i=0; i<n; i++)
      scanf("%s", name[i][15]);
        printf("Names are: ");
    for (i=0; i<n; i++)
      printf("%s\n", name[i]);

The output is--

Enter how many names you want to enter:2                                                                                                      
Enter names of 2 friends:vyom                                                                                                                 
Names are:

Upvotes: 0

Views: 46

Answers (1)

csavvy
csavvy

Reputation: 821

scanf("%s", name[i][15]); is different compared to scanf("%s", name[i]);

type of name[i][15] is char and type of name[i] is char*

scanf expects char* when reading strings, that is the reason in the second case its not behaving as you expected.

Use scanf("%s", name[i]); for reading strings, better yet use fgets to read multi word strings.

Upvotes: 3

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