Subj : Re: Random Integer Solutions...Help Please...
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Ed Mulroy [TeamB]
Date : Sun Jun 27 2004 11:11 pm

> Hey Ed, I did a little revisions on my program.  It seems
> that it doesn't like sscanf so...

I likes sscanf just find.  However what you show does not use it.

Your program logic has problems.

> #include <stdio.h>
>
===main returns int.  yes, years ago a return value type of int===
===was assumed.  this is not years ago.  put in the return type===
> main()
> {
> int a;
>    char buffer[133];
>
>    printf("Input the number of integers you will input,\nand I
> will tell you the smallest of the group: ");
===you kept the scanf below===
> scanf("%d", &a);
>
===you added the fgets below which is part of the replacement ===
===for scanf, but instead of sscanf you followed it with scanf===
===and as mentioned above, you kept the code which it is===
===supposed to replace===
===the scanf line below should be sscanf(buffer, "%d", &a);===
>    fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), stdin);
>    scanf("%d", &a);
>
===this loop does nothing because the semicolon which follows===
===the ending parentheses is an empty executable statement===
===that does nothing 'a' times===
===it should read in a number and test if it is the smallest===
===in each pass through the loop===
>    for ( ;a > 0; --a);
>
===it can't print the smallest number because 1-you have not===
===read the numbers in or calculated the smallest and===
===2-because it gives the address of a character string===
===to printf as if it were a number===
> printf("The smallest number is %d\n", &buffer);
>
>    getchar();
>    printf("Press enter...");
>    getchar();
>
>    return 0;
> }

This is obviously a school thing.  I am happy to help cure problems or
suggest things but will not do an assignment or test for you.  Show
what you come up with from this and I will enjoy trying to help.

..  Ed

> Jeremy Pham wrote in message
> news:40df4e3f$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

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