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    <p>A few observations,</p> <ul> <li>Save reallocating the array and copying the previous values for every record</li> <li>allocate an array of pointers to new records, and fill that array as you add records</li> <li>you can reallocate that pointer array much cheaper than the data records</li> <li>move you menu display and menu choice determination to separate functions</li> <li>you will probably add a linked list (head, mover?), so the pointer array is close</li> <li>use fgets to read input, it is less twitchy than scanf</li> <li>you can still use sscanf to extract your menu choice (that fixed the problem)</li> </ul> <p>Here is the revised record storage,</p> <pre><code>#include&lt;stdio.h&gt; #include&lt;stdlib.h&gt; //needed for malloc, free #include&lt;string.h&gt; // needed for the memcpy #define MAX 100 struct record { char fName[MAX]; char lName[MAX]; char hometown[MAX]; }; //structure template/declaration struct record* records[500]; //allow room for 500 (for now) int numRecords=0; //stores number of records, used for several tasks //prototypes int addRecord(); </code></pre> <p>here are functions to display menu and read input (view)</p> <pre><code>//********MENU*********** int menushow(FILE* fh) { printf("\nPlease select from the following:\n"); printf(" 1. Print all records.\n"); printf(" 2. Print number of records.\n"); printf(" 3. Print size of database.\n"); printf(" 4. Add record.\n"); printf(" 5. Delete record.\n"); printf(" 6. Print number of accesses to database.\n"); printf(" 7. Exit.\n"); printf("Enter a number 1-7:"); return 0; } int menudo(char* line) { int sel; int choice; if( sscanf(line,"%d",&amp;sel) &lt; 1 ) { fprintf(stderr, "Error, not a valid input. Must be a number from 1 to 7.\n"); return 0; } switch(choice = atoi(line)) { case 1: break; case 2: break; case 3: break; case 4: if( addRecord() &lt; 0 ) //This creates a new record based of input into struct library. fprintf(stderr,"addRecord failure\n"); break; case 5: break; case 6: break; case 7: exit(0); break; default: printf("\nError, not valid input. Please enter a number from 1 to 7.\n\n"); break; } return choice; } </code></pre> <p>Here is main with the menu processing extracted to functions,</p> <pre><code>#define EXITCHOICE 7 int main(void) { char line[MAX+1]; int action=0; while (action&lt;EXITCHOICE) { menushow(stdout); if( !fgets(line,sizeof(line),stdin) ) { break; } //printf("entered: %s\n",line); if( (action=menudo(line)) &lt; 0 ) break; } return 0; } </code></pre> <p>and here is the simpler addrecord,</p> <pre><code>//** Beginning of addRecord** //returns -1 on failure int addRecord() {//carries users input data struct record library; //this will hold info for user input struct record *myNewRecord; //creates a new struct pointer to store all the old data and new data printf ("Please enter your first name:\n"); if(!fgets(library.fName, sizeof(library.fName), stdin)) return -1; printf ("Please enter your last name:\n"); if(!fgets(library.lName, sizeof(library.lName), stdin)) return -1; printf ("Please enter your hometown:\n"); if(!fgets(library.hometown, sizeof(library.hometown), stdin)) return -1; printf("You entered %s for your first name.\n", library.fName); printf("You entered %s for your last name.\n", library.lName); printf("You entered %s for your hometown.\n", library.hometown); records[numRecords] = (struct record*)malloc(sizeof(struct record)); //allocates space to fit all old data plus the new struct data if (records[numRecords] == NULL) { fprintf(stderr,"error: Out of memory\n"); return -1; } memcpy(records[numRecords],&amp;library,sizeof(struct record)); numRecords++;//increments numRecords by 1 fprintf(stderr, "[%d] records!!\n",numRecords); return(numRecords); } </code></pre>
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    1. COWOW Chuck!!! You're are life saver... My teacher wasn't help me very much but this all makes sense. THanks SOOOO MUCH!!
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