CompuServe Messages

Henry, Scanf is really a pretty evil function, especially when you're dealing with "char" variables. I suggest using gets() or fgets() instead. This will get a whole line at a time, terminated by a newline. You can look at what they typed and determine what you want to do after getting the line: fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin); // should check for error… if(buf[0] == 'y' || buf[0] == 'Y') …. This way works, but is a little inflexible. The next way allows for leading white space: fgets(…) for(i=0; iswhite(buf[i]); i++); if(buf[0] == 'y' || buf[0] == 'Y') … For more complex input, look at the ANSI function strtok() which will break the input line up into logical "tokens" seperated by white space or whatever other seperator characters you like: char *token, char *nexttoken; token = strtok(buf, " \t\n"); nexttoken = strtok(NULL, " \t\n"); –Doug