C - Practice with pointers and Structs - Getting string with spaces - c

Question

I'm practicing C using structs and pointers, I'm asking to the user to input some info using structs and then using pointers to modify it but I'm having problems when I need to get a string with spaces. I switched all the scanfs for fgets and still getting problems with the output.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXTSTR 25
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
typedef struct birthday {
int day, year;
char month[10];
} BDATE;
struct employee {
char name[MAXTSTR];
int id;
float salary;
BDATE bday;
} emp;
struct employee *ptrEmp = &emp;
printf("Enter employee name:");
fgets(emp.name, MAXTSTR, stdin );
printf("enter id number:");
scanf(" %d", &emp.id);
printf("enter salary");
scanf(" %f", &emp.salary);
printf("enter birhday:");
scanf(" %d", &emp.bday.day);
printf("enter year:");
scanf(" %d", &emp.bday.year);
printf("enter month:");
fgets(emp.bday.month, MAXTSTR, stdin);
printf("\nName: %s \nID: %d \nSalary: %.2f\n", emp.name, emp.id, emp.salary);
printf("%d %s %d", emp.bday.day, emp.bday.month, emp.bday.year);
printf("\n------------------------------------\n");
printf("Enter employee name:");
fgets(ptrEmp->name, MAXTSTR, stdin);
printf("enter id number:");
scanf(" %d", &ptrEmp->id);
printf("enter salary");
scanf(" %f", &ptrEmp->salary);
printf("enter birhday:");
scanf(" %d", &ptrEmp->bday.day);
printf("enter year:");
scanf(" %d", &ptrEmp->bday.year);
printf("enter month:");
scanf(ptrEmp->bday.month, MAXTSTR, stdin);
printf("\nName: %s \nID: %d \nSalary: %.2f\n",
ptrEmp->name, ptrEmp->id, ptrEmp->salary);
printf("%d %s %d", ptrEmp->bday.day, ptrEmp->bday.month,
ptrEmp->bday.year);
return (EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
INPUT and OUTPUT EXAMPLE
Enter employee name:Luis Oliveira
enter id number:01
enter salary1525.25
enter birhday:05
enter year:1991
enter month:
Name: Luis Oliveira
ID: 1
Salary: 1525.25
5
1991
------------------------------------
Enter employee name:Patricia Santos
enter id number:02
enter salary16546.46
enter birhday:05
enter year:1946
enter month:Fev
Name: Patricia Santos
ID: 2
Salary: 16546.46
5
1946
What I'm doing wrong?
Thank you in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Mixing scanf() and fgets() can be very confusing: scanf() leaves the pending newline in the input stream and fgets() reads it and immediately returns because it has reached the end of line.
You can read the month with scanf("%9s", emp.bday.month); and the employee name with scanf(" %14[^\n]", ptrEmp->name);.
Also check for invalid input causing scanf() to return a value different from the expected 1.
Modified program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXTSTR 25
typedef struct birthday {
int day, year;
char month[10];
} BDATE;
struct employee {
char name[MAXTSTR];
int id;
float salary;
BDATE bday;
};
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
struct employee emp;
for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
printf("Enter employee name: ");
if (scanf(" %14[^\n]", emp.name) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("enter id number: ");
if (scanf(" %d", &emp.id) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("enter salary: ");
if (scanf(" %f", &emp.salary) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("enter birthday: ");
if (scanf(" %d", &emp.bday.day) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("enter year: ");
if (scanf(" %d", &emp.bday.year) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("enter month: ");
if (scanf("%9s", emp.bday.month) != 1)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
printf("\n\nName: %s\nID: %d\nSalary: %.2f\n", emp.name, emp.id, emp.salary);
printf("Birthday: %d %s %d\n", emp.bday.day, emp.bday.month, emp.bday.year);
printf("\n------------------------------------\n");
}
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}