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Error: invalid operands to binary & (have ‘char *’ and ‘int’)

Hello friends,

I am learning C programming under linux recently, this is a example I tried, but got an error.

Code:

 1 /* Insurance of driver - using logical operators */

  2 #include <stdio.h>

  3  main()

  4 {

  5        char sex, ms;

  6        int age;

  7        printf("Enter age, sex, marital status");

  8        scanf("%d %c %c" &age, &sex, &ms);

  9        if((ms == 'M') || (ms == 'U' && sex == 'M' && age > 30) || (ms == 'U' && sex == 'F' && age >25))

 10                printf("Driver is insured");

 11        else

 12                printf("Driver is not insured");

 13 }

~  

root@gpl-vm:/lianxi/ch2# gcc -o insure insure.c 

insure.c: In function ‘main’:

insure.c:8:19: error: invalid operands to binary & (have ‘char *’ and ‘int’)

root@gpl-vm:/lianxi/ch2# vim insure.c 

root@gpl-vm:/lianxi/ch2#

the Linux distribution is

Code:

root@gpl-vm:/lianxi/ch2# cat /proc/version

Linux version 3.2.0-31-generic-pae (buildd@roseapple) (gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) ) #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 7 16:39:45 UTC 2012

How to deal with this?

probably you missed a , before &age.
scanf("%d %c %c", &age, &sex, &ms);

Quote:

Originally Posted by chinabenjamin66 (Post 4842976)

How to deal with this?

Simple. The compiler gives you a hint that there is a problem in line 8. If you carefully read that line you will realize that you are missing a comma.

Edit: Too late.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD (Post 4842993)

Simple. The compiler gives you a hint that there is a problem in line 8. If you carefully read that line you will realize that you are missing a comma.

Edit: Too late.

Thanks, I am a beginer for C programing under linux, some questions I asked may be silly or very simple. hope post valuable question gradually.

great! you are not silly, just made a mistake. Try to interpret the error message and look for strange things (like "binary &")
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