Question

I have the following part of code :

for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
{
    printf("Student %d\n",i+1);
    printf("Enter name : ");
    scanf("%s",&(student+i)->name);
    fflush(stdin);

    lengthName = strlen((student+i)->name);
    while(lengthName !='\0')
    {

    }} 

when the length is shorter than 10, it will add hyphens until reaching the maximum size.
Ex : John =>> 6 hyphens will be added

I know how to do it in csharp but can’t figure it out in c.
Could some of you give me some lights please?

PS : Oh yes the variable name is char name[10+1] and it a part of the structure called student.

Answer 1

This is so simple that it seems like I must be missing something.

lengthName = strlen(student[i].name);
while (lengthName < 10)
  student[i].name[lengthName++] = '-';
student[i].name[lengthName] = '\0';

Perhaps you are confused by C#’s (presumed) possession of a first-class string type? No such thing in C, only bare arrays of characters; which is at once tedious (you have to do all the memory management yourself) and liberating (as you see above).