Hi there! I keep getting these reoccurring errors while running this program on Quincy 2005

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int
main (void)
{
double g, d, t;

printf ("Enter time in seconds : \n");
scanf ("%lf", &t);

if (t > 0);
{
scanf ("%lf%lf", &d,&g);

g = 9.807;
d = sqrt(2*t/g);

printf ("Object has fallen %lf meters after %lf seconds of freefall on Earth", d, t);
}

else (t < 0);
{

printf ("Answer is not valid");
}

return (0);
}


The errors are:
c:/users/owners/documents/text3.c In function `main':
c:/users/owners/documents/text.c22: parse error before "else"
Unsuccessful build

Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Note: Very little knowledge in the C Program

The issue is you have a semicolon immediately after the if. That separates the if from the braces after it.

When it runs into the else, it expects that the last set of braces was "connected" with an if statement -- but due to that semicolon, they aren't.

I suggest you remove that semicolon, as well as the one after your else clause (which does the same thing for the else -- which will not report an error but will make your program behave incorrectly).

Good luck!

I have removed the semi-colons and the same In function `main': error occurs as well as a new error:
c23: parse error before '{' token

Thank you for you time though!

Could you post your new code? By the way, if you put it between CODE tags, the formatting will be retained.

does not make sense. It should be either

or just

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Why do you have this:

You're not reading distance and acceleration from the input, acc. is initialized to 9.807, and distance is calculated from it. So you can remove that line.


Cheers