Writing C Program(s) Using Dynamic Data Structures

// approach is to use recursion.

Listing 17.1 The films1.c Program
/* films1.c -- using an array of structures */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define TSIZE 45 /* size of array to hold title */
#define FMAX 5 /* maximum number of film titles */
struct film {
char title[TSIZE];
int rating;
};
char * s_gets(char * st, int n);
int main(void)
{
struct film movies[FMAX];
int i = 0;
int j;
puts("Enter first movie title:");
while (i < FMAX && s_gets(movies[i].title, TSIZE) != NULL &&
movies[i].title[0] != '\0')
{
puts("Enter your rating <0-10>:");
scanf("%d", &movies[i++].rating);
while(getchar() != '\n')
continue;
puts("Enter next movie title (empty line to stop):");
}
if (i == 0)
printf("No data entered. ");
else
printf ("Here is the movie list:\n");
for (j = 0; j < i; j++)
printf("Movie: %s Rating: %d\n", movies[j].title,
movies[j].rating);

printf("Bye!\n");
return 0;
}
char * s_gets(char * st, int n)
{
char * ret_val;
char * find;
ret_val = fgets(st, n, stdin);
if (ret_val)
{
find = strchr(st, '\n'); // look for newline
if (find) // if the address is not NULL,
*find = '\0'; // place a null character there
else
while (getchar() != '\n')
continue; // dispose of rest of line
}
return ret_val;
}