Not executing the body of a if statement

[suzee_q00]

I think the program recognized that it has found a match because it no longer gives me the Undefined Command message but it will not execute the body of the if statement.

Here's my handy dandy code. Please let me know if anything is unclear from this snippet. I am never sure how much of the code I need to provide.

// Loop until there are no more commands in input file
   while ( fgets ( cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin ) != NULL )
   {
      printf(cmdStr);
      rmNl(cmdStr);
      if ( lineWithBlanks ( cmdStr ) )
         continue;
      else
      {
         if (strEQ (cmdStr, "ADD"))
         {
            /*   read the next 6 lines into the phone structure   */
            fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
            while (!lineWithBlanks)
            {
               scanf(cmdStr, "%s %s", phoneRec.fName, phoneRec.lName);
               fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
               scanf(cmdStr, "%s", phoneRec.address);
               fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
               scanf(cmdStr, "%s", phoneRec.city);
               fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
               scanf(cmdStr, "%s", phoneRec.state);
               fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
               scanf(cmdStr, "%d", &phoneRec.zip);
               fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
               scanf(cmdStr, "%s", phoneRec.key);
            }
               insertNode (&head, phoneRec);       /*  create node   */
         }
         else if ( strEQ (cmdStr, "PBLN"))   /*   print by last name   */
            ;
         else if ( strEQ (cmdStr, "DBPN"))   /*   delete by phone number   */
            ;
         else if ( strEQ (cmdStr, "DBLN"))   /*   delete by last name   */
            ;
         else if ( strEQ (cmdStr, "PDIR"))   /*   print directory   */
            printList (&head);
         else
            printf ("Undefined Command\n");
       }
     }
 
 

Here is the output I am getting:
ADD
1111
Undefined Command
22 33 44 55 66
Undefined Command
99 88 77
Undefined Command
After it recognizes "ADD" it should store 1111 ... in the structure instead of going back and treating them as command

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)
Suze

[suzee_q00]

I figured out the previous problem and created a new one for myself. Ain't that always the way. The problem with the other code was line 14 I didn't pass a value to linewithblanks so the not would never be true and it hops out of the loop and continues on it's merry little way.

Why waste a good thread . . . Now for the new problem. I seem to have created an infinite loop for myself. I only removed the if linew/... and it accompanying brackets I am don't see where the loop comes in.

Here's the latest code

// Loop until there are no more commands in input file
   while ( fgets ( cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin ) != NULL )
   {
      printf(cmdStr);
      rmNl(cmdStr);
      if ( lineWithBlanks ( cmdStr ) )
         continue;
      else
      {
         if (strEQ (cmdStr, "ADD"))
         {
            /*   read the next 6 lines into the phone structure   */
            fgets(cmdStr, BUFLEN, fin);
            scanf(cmdStr, "%s %s", phoneRec.fName, phoneRec.lName);
 

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