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copied!<p>You probably used <code>scanf</code> to read <code>choice</code> before calling <code>fgets</code> to read the name. <code>scanf</code> may have left a newline in <code>stdin</code> which your code mistakes for an empty name input. If that is indeed the case, try not to use <code>scanf</code> (use <code>fgets</code> to retrieve <code>choice</code> and use <code>atoi</code> to conver to <code>int</code> or <code>strcmp</code> to compare against "1\n" etc.). The code should otherwise work, with the below modifications to account for the fact that <code>fgets</code> also reads the terminating newline into the buffer (which you probably want stripped):</p> <pre><code> #define MY_LENOF(x) (sizeof(x)/sizeof((x)[0])) char choice[3] = { 0 }; /* example of how to initialize to all NULs */ if (!fgets(choice, MY_LENOF(choice), stdin)) { fprintf(stderr, "Premature end of input\n"); exit(1); } if (strcmp(choice, "1\n") == 0) { /*Name*/ printf("\nEnter the name:"); if (!fgets(name, MY_LENOF(name), stdin)) { /* if fgets fails it leaves name unchanged, so we reset it to "" */ name[0] = '\0'; } /* good practice to use srtnlen in order not to overrun fixed buffer */ /* not necessarily a problem with fgets which guarantees the trailing NUL */ size_t nameLength = strnlen(name, MY_LENOF(name)); assert(name[nameLength] == '\0'); if (nameLength - 1 > 0 && name[nameLength - 1] == '\n') { /* strip trailing newline */ name[--nameLength] = '\0'; } else if (nameLength >= MY_LENOF(name) - 1) { fprintf(stderr, "Name is too long\n"); exit(1); } else { fprintf(stderr, "Premature end of input\n"); exit(1); } record.nameLength = nameLength; record.name = malloc(sizeof(char)*(record.nameLength + 1)); strcpy(record.name, name); </code></pre>

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