c for and while

[Liam mallka]

I just made this code and im having hard time with the flag please help me.

 

[Grabhanem]

What is the role of 'flag' in your code? You initialize it to zero, and then during the loop, you only continue if it's equal to 'y' (in C, char is just byte with fancy formatting, so 'y' = 121)

[Nayr438]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    int x=0, fact=0, number=0;
    
    while(1) 
    {        
        fact=1;
        
        printf("Enter Number:");
        scanf("%d", &number);
        getchar();
        
        if(number<1) printf("Invalid Input!\n");
        else {
            for(x=1; x<=number; x++) fact *= x;
            printf("Your factorial of %d is %d.\n", number, fact);
        }
        
        printf("Would you like to try again? 'y' to continue.\n");
        
        if(getchar() != 'y') break;
    }
    return 0;
}

You could do a while loop and break if the flag isn't set to y. Though the user will need to press enter.

If you want to accept immediate input for 'y' you will need to either watch for a actual keypress or use getch from the nonstandard C library header conio.h