From: Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Help: need to prevent infinite loop
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:06:36 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601171006.36978.samjnaa@gmail.com> (raw)
Hello. I have the following code:
#include "stdio.h"
int repeatinput;
int jday, jmon, jyear;
enum boolean { FALSE, TRUE };
void main(void)
{
do
{
repeatinput = FALSE;
printf("Date as YYYY-MM-DD : ");
if (scanf("%d-%d-%d", &jyear, &jmon, &jday) < 1) repeatinput = TRUE;
if (jyear < 1800 || jyear > 2399) repeatinput = TRUE;
if (repeatinput) printf ("Please enter a valid date.\n");
}
while (repeatinput);
printf ("Thanks for entering a valid date.\n");
}
If I compile it with gcc and execute it, and press an arrow key at the input
prompt and press enter, I get an infinite loop giving the date prompt and
saying "Please enter a valid date".
Wonder what's wrong with the code? Should not, at the second execution of the
loop, it wait for me to enter a correct input?
Thanks for your feedback.
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next reply other threads:[~2006-01-17 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-17 4:36 Shriramana Sharma [this message]
2006-01-17 7:14 ` Help: need to prevent infinite loop Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-18 16:24 ` Shriramana Sharma
2006-01-18 16:33 ` Steve Graegert
2006-01-22 10:20 ` Glynn Clements
2006-01-22 11:28 ` Jesse Ruffin
2006-01-23 5:57 ` Jesse Ruffin
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