TOTAL newb

[science]

Alrighty, I borrowed a C programming book from my cousin to help me get into programming, and I downloaded a bloodshed compiler.

Ok, I typed out this simple function:

#include <stdio.h>

main ()
{
printf("hello, world/n");
}

compile it, save it as a C source file on desktop. I click on the desktop icon I just created to get my output, but the window with the output only pops up for like a millisecond! I need to it stay up, so I can move on the more advanced things where I might actually want to LOOK at my output.

Make sense? I know, I'm completely new to this. I hope you can help me.

[suicidal pencil]

try this:

-open a command prompt.
-drag the desktop icon into it.
-hit 'enter'.
-The program will work

It's doing exactly what you want. It's printing "hello, world", then exiting.

Here's a bit of a picture guide of what I described. I used a perl file to do this, btw.

[science]

THANK YOU!

If anyone else would like to share another way, please feel free to do so.

[v0id]

A common way is also to "pause" the program right in the end. It can be done in various ways. You can choose to you use the system-command, pause, in Windows, which will do the job for you, or you can wait for user-input in the end.

system("pause");
or
getchar();

These functions shall be thrown in right before the end of the main-function. Note that the first solution using the pause-command only will work on platforms having the pause-command.

[suicidal pencil]

Originally Posted by science

THANK YOU!

your welcome

[soku11]

Or you can read something to a variable:

char a;
printf("%c",&a);

It will also wait for input without closing the window But it all depends on your platform (OS).

[Xav]

You could try a loop, which is very common in command-line applications.

[v0id]

Personally, I'd never use any of these solutions, except the one provided by suicidal pencil. I prefer to run, and also compile the program, directly from the terminal.

[chili5]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

main ()
{
     printf("hello, world/n");
cin.get();
}

This is what I do, to get it to wait for user input, use cin.get();

[soku11]

Originally Posted by chili5

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

main ()
{
     printf("hello, world/n");
cin.get();
}

This is what I do, to get it to wait for user input, use cin.get();

Personally, I dont like mixing languages, especially I/O functions. And further working on this code can cause strange behavior when mixing cin with scanf or cout with printf. But its my subjective opinion :P