Question

I want to append new values to linked list tail, but for some reason it seems like the values are not getting appended. For new linked list allocation:

struct checkPoints *checkPt = *checkPoint;

while (checkPt != NULL) {
    checkPt = checkPt->next;
}
if (checkPt == NULL) {
    checkPt = malloc(sizeof (struct checkPoints));
    scanf("%c %d %d %d %d\n", &checkPt->dropOut, &checkPt->currentPoint, &checkPt->competitor, &checkPt->hour, &checkPt->minute);
}

Ideas?

Answer 1

You aren’t adding your new item to the list (and also lose track of the end of the list when you allocate your new item). Try

struct checkPoints *tail = *checkPoint;

struct checkPoints *newItem = malloc(sizeof (struct checkPoints));
scanf("%c %d %d %d %d\n", &checkPt->dropOut, &checkPt->currentPoint,
                          &checkPt->competitor, &checkPt->hour,
                          &checkPt->minute);
newItem->next = NULL;

if (tail == NULL) {
    *checkPoint = newItem
}
else {
    while (tail->next != NULL) {
        tail = tail->next;
    }
    tail->next = newItem;
}