Beginning C Programming - Part 8 - User Input with fgets() and strncmp()

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Series of videos on programming in C

This video looks at user input using fgets() and strncmp()

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[shakos]

Its like you say what I want to hear and you make it fit perfectly in my brain for me to understand.

[leoncrist]

This video literally explains everything you need to know for the beginner!

[NateBjammin]

Thank you so much for these videos. I have had so much trouble writing code the past few weeks, and your explanation has made everything so clear an understandable.

[JonathanHilierChannel]

Thank you so much. I am studying electrical engineering and we were taught to use scanf. However after a bit of experimentation I soon realized the issue with scanf. A software engineer buddy pointed me.to fgets and I found this video. As a beginner, everything you spoke about was new to me, but the way you presented it made it very easy to understand. I learnt a lot in 15 minutes! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[BIueBadger]

This is exactly what I needed. Could not find a better explanation of fgets() and strncmp(). Thanks a lot.

[surajbisa]

man u got the best c programming tutorials on youtube :)

[Gothguy]

Thank you for these videos. You are extremely well-spoken and you explain things clearer than my C instructor.

[shimmylikejimmy]

Your videos are incredibly precise and easy to understand, thanks so much!

[fontanot]

Nicely done sr. Thank you for explaining.

[Lord_Alimdor]

Liked and subbed! Everything you say, you say for a reason. A lot of info packed into this 14 minutes! =)

[TheFlyguy]

Seriously, this is a fantastic explanation on fgets and even the while loop...i look forward to your other video's.

[jakubsimko]

Thank you very much for this tutorials, you deserve much more followers!

[theluxauntie]

thank you so much! my next programming assignment requires this and my instructor has not explained it to us at all.... this was so helpful!

[alizarhodes]

You have a lovely voice to listen to. Nice tutorial, found it very helpful. Thanks.

[tardboog]

Absolutely brilliant! Thank you, sir -- this was especially helpful!  I have now subscribed to your channel so I look forward to more learning :)

[antoinelb]

I came looking for fgets() only, but the other things you explained where very useful.

[NayeemRidwan]

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[hectorandem]

This was really helpful. Just a quick question, though: I tried to make the while loop exit if either "quit" or "exit" was typed by setting my if statement to "if (strncmp(UsrInput, "quit", 4)|| strncmp(UsrInput, "exit", 4) == 0)". When I ran the program, it just exited immediately after the first input! Any ideas?

[armaniqbal]

I always had trouble understanding the while != 0 whilst reading other peoples code. This explains it. Cheers.

[cl]

how can I create an array of strings from user input?
I have also been trying to read in a sentence and I found out about " %[^\n] "which seemed pretty cool at first.. but when trying to use it in a loop that gets input from the user it gets ugly