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[Guest]

It should be pretty simple. Just loop through each student and check to see if the ID matches.

void LetUserSearchForStudent() 
{ 
  // Getting the ID from the user to search for 
  int id = GetIDFromUser();
  int i;
  for (i=0;i<10;i++) {
    if (id==students[i].ID) {
      printf("%s,%s\n", students[i].LastName, students[i].FirstName);
      return;
    }
  printf("Student not found!\n");
}  

I just made the function print the last and first name of the student when the ID matches. You can make it do whatever you want.

[Bouki]

Thanks alot. This really made me learn quite a few things about indexes and thats where i was mixing up.

In the program i was trying to find a way to update the file by searching for a particular file like u showed me just now. In another function could i call back that function then change an information from the data searched for?

[Guest]

Yeah you should be able to do that.

[Bouki]

ok..ill try it and post it later so u can direct me ok

[Bouki]

I tried this function but not gettin what i want. Could u say step by step what i need to do plz

void UpdateStudents(Student students[])
{
     char name[10];
     int position;
     int change;
     
  printf("Enter the First name of the person record you want to edit: ");
  scanf("%d", &name);
    for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {
        if (name==students[i].FirstName)
{
                printf("Enter Index position of desired changes[0-6]:");
                fflush(stdin);
                scanf("%d", &position);
                
                printf("What do you want to change it to:");
                fflush(stdin);
                scanf("%d", &change);
                
                Student students[position]=change;
                }
                }
                

} 

[Guest]

scanf("%d", &name);

This won't work because %d tells scanf to get an integer. name is a string, and the proper way to get a string is with fgets:

fgets(name, 10, stdin);

if (name==students[i].FirstName)

In C, you can not compare to strings like this. To compare strings, you need to include the string.h file and use the strcmp function.

if (!strcmp(name, students[i].FirstName))

                printf("Enter Index position of desired changes[0-6]:"); 
                fflush(stdin); 
                scanf("%d", &position); 
                 
                printf("What do you want to change it to:"); 
                fflush(stdin); 
                scanf("%d", &change); 
                 
                Student students[position]=change; 

I don't know what you are trying to do here, but it is definitely wrong. What is the user changing exactly? Why does the user need to choose an index position if they already input the first name?

[Bouki]

What im trying to do is allow the user to change anything he wants from the record. Updating it if he wants to change a name, id number, dob etc...

[Guest]

You are going to have to add the other options, but here is a head start:

int choice;
printf("What do you want to change?\n");
printf("1. Change ID number\n");
scanf("%d", &choice);
switch (choice) {
    case 1:
        printf("Input new ID number: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].ID);
        break;
    default:
        printf("Bad input\n");
        break;
}

If you need to, read up on the C switch statement:
Cprogramming.com Tutorial: Switch-case structure

[Bouki]

Thank you very much..I am gonna finish up and post it

[Bouki]

What do u think abt this code

void UpdateStudents(Student students[])
{
     char name[10];
     int position;
     int change;
     
  printf("Enter the First name of the person record you want to edit: ");
  scanf("%d", &name);
    for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {
if (strcmp(name,students[i].FirstName) == 0)
{
                printf("Enter Index position of desired changes[0-6]:");
                scanf("%d", &position);
                
                printf("What do you want to change it to:");

                switch(position)
                {
                   
                   case 0: scanf("%d",change_int);
                                student[i].id = change_int;
                                break;
                   
                   case 1: scanf("%s",change_str);
                                strcpy(student.LastName,change_str);
                                break;
                                
                   case 2: scanf("%s",change_str);
                                strcpy(student.FirstName,change_str);
                                break;
                                
                    case 3: scanf("%d",change_int);
                                student[i].DateOfBirth = change_int;
                                break;
             

                    default: break;
                }           
               
}

[Bouki]

How can i write what the user change back to the file "record.txt"

void UpdateStudents(Student students[])
{
   int choice;
for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
    {

printf("What do you want to change?\n");
printf("1. Change ID number\n 2. Change Last Name\n 3. Change First Name\n 4. Change Date of Birth\n 5. Change Address\n 6. Change Telephone number\n 7. Change Program\n");
scanf("%d", &choice);
switch (choice) {
    case 1:
        printf("Input new ID number: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].ID);
        break;
        
     case 2:
        printf("Input new Last Name: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].LastName);
        break;
        
     case 3:
        printf("Input new First Name: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].FirstName);
        break;
        
     case 4:
        printf("Input new Date of Birth: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].DateOfBirth);
        break;
        
      case 5:
        printf("Input new Address: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].Address);
        break; 
        
       case 6:
        printf("Input new Telephone Number: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].TelephoneNumber);
        break;  
              
       case 7:
        printf("Input new Program: ");
        scanf("%d", &students[i].ProgramPursued);
        break;  
                    
    default:
        printf("Bad input\n");
        break;
}  

} }

[alaukik]

BUMP

does it work in c++ the same way?