Hi, I'm currently a student given the task of programming a RPN calculator using C.

The following code is some test code that I made to solve the issue described in the thread title. It calls a custom getline() function(while loop) which is also shown and then should take in two inputs entered separately or togther separeted by a space. Then when the "=" sign is entered it should print out the sum of the two numbers that were entered. And when q is pressed it should quit the program however currently what it does is that it continues to the next getline() call and asks for another input even though I already told it to quit. And then if I type q once more it proceeds to quit even though it should have quit the first time.
The weird thing is that if I put the output file through gdb the code executes just like I want it to. However running the output file does the error described above.
The code was separate C files but I combined them to post here

#include <string.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define STACKSIZE 100

float stack[STACKSIZE];
int pos=-1;

void print(float ans)
{
printf("ANS = %f", ans);
}
void add()
{
float temp1 = pop();
float temp2 = pop();
float sum=0;
sum = temp2 + temp1;
push(sum);
}

void stackdec(char s[])
{

float addtostack;

	addtostack=atof(s);
	push(addtostack);

}

float pop()
{
if(pos>=0)
{
float num=stack[pos];
pos--;
return num;
}
else {
printf("Error, No Numbers to Perform Function");
exit(0);
}
}

void push(float push)
{
pos++;
stack[pos]=push;
}

int main()
{
int resume=1;
char s[100];
int i=0;
memset(&s[0], 0, sizeof(s));
float ans=0;
while(resume==1)
{
printf("\nTesting Adding, Input 2 Numbers Separated By Space:\n");
getline(s,100);
if(strcmp(s,"q")==0)
{
	resume=0;
	exit(0);
}
else
{
	stackdec(s);
	getline(s,100);
	if(strcmp(s,"q")==0)
	{
	resume=0;
	exit(0);
	}
	else
	{
	stackdec(s);
	add();
	ans=pop();
	print(ans);
	}
}
}


return 0;
}
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Probably, your getline procedure puts the newline character into the buffer.
So you have to compare the string "q\n".

I will give it a try and get back to you. Thanks

That was great, thank you!

So what was happening when I ran it through gdb, why was it executing differently then when I ran the program? Was it not putting the \n character into the string at that time?

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