From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help a newbie 2!! Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <1ua1bskf56srpi8ghc4lvcrrq98e47mtfs@4ax.com> References: <88q3ca$79s$1 AT news3 DOT infoave DOT net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 X-Trace: /KiKeTLu5BFygLHh9NX3LyXMHrxIzVS50hsbaUPqzn+nQw0w9GCGXPz+S4YAUFXMaw4sqTUOfQwb!PMavdHI9axyqlxDWrb2WxUVTbUq7l0VUaNYa9Ow9BFMrT85CPA1HIAXm+6AHUUQ1ZwokusSkTpph!us1ssLY= X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:09:38 GMT Distribution: world Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:09:38 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 20:13:20 -0500, "Nite Hawk" wrote: >god, I know that int is for integer values (duh)! >so what do you use when entering a name value? char name[256]; An array of char values can hold a string. Try going to DOS and info libc func string info libc func stdio Those will help you learn strings. -- Damian Yerrick http://yerricde.tripod.com/ Comment on story ideas: http://home1.gte.net/frodo/quickjot.html AOL is sucks! Find out why: http://anti-aol.org/faqs/aas/ View full sig: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~yerricde/sig.html This is McAfee VirusScan. Add these two lines to your .sig to prevent the spread of .sig viruses. http://www.mcafee.com/