Question

My problem is that the second scanf(" %s", name); doesn’t work. It just doesn’t wait for the user’s input.

int main()    
{
    int ID = 0;
    char name[100];
    float CGPA = 0;

    printf("enter name\n");
    scanf(" %s", name);

    printf("enter float\n");
    scanf("%.2f", &ID);

    printf("enter name\n");
    scanf(" %s", name);

    system("PAUSE");    
}

Why does it skip this scanf?

Answer 1

Your problem is at following line:

scanf("%.2f", &ID);

1. You have an error there, you meant &CGPA.
2. You don’t need to specify precision here (.2), it’s up to user. Simple %f will work fine.

It should look like this:

scanf("%f", &CPGA);

Hope this helps.