Question

I’m fairly competent with if/else statements, and this is a really old assignment that I ended up turning in partially complete. But I still wanted to know exactly why my code wouldn’t work.

I want my user to input name, height, and sex. My code will then display an entire sentence that says “Name is X cm tall and is a male” or “Name is X cm tall and is a female.”

When I input name and enter, it immediately then skips displays both the height AND the sex. Regardless of what I input after that, it then ends the program.

Input name: Jack
Input height in cm: 180
sex(M/F):
Computer $

I’ve been playing around with this code for a while now, but I have been stuck for a while now. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is my code:

#include<stdio.h>

int main() {
  char name[30];
  char sex;
  float height; 

  printf("Input name: ");
  scanf("%s", name);
  fflush(stdin);
  printf("Input height in cm: ");
  scanf("%f", &height);
  fflush(stdin);

  printf("sex(M/F): ");
  scanf("%c", &sex);
  if (sex == 'M') 
  {
    printf("%s is %f cm tall and male", name, height);
  }
  else if (sex == 'F')
  {
    printf("%s is %f cm tall and female", name, height);
  }
  printf("\n");
  return 0;
}

Answer 1

From what I can see it only skips the sex part – which is very sad to be honest :-)).

it immediately then skips displays both the height AND the sex

Input name: Jack Input height in cm: 180 sex(M/F): Computer $

You can try this:

scanf(" %c", &sex);
       ^

The space causes scanf to eat blanks before reading a character.