I need a user to enter a string and said string should be stored in a struct variable in C

Question

I have to create an athlete management system. I am fairly new to C so pardon me being a noob and asking silly questions. So when I accept all the input for an athlete it prints the string components as a heart emoji. So changed it to use strcpy() but when I do this the program crashes after I input the name. so idk how else to store the user inputted name.

typedef struct athlete
{
char name[100];
int id;
int age;
}ath;

this is my struct

do
{
    printf("Please enter the participant's name:\n");
    scanf("%s",aname);

    for ( i = 0; i < strlen(aname); i++ ){
        if(isalpha(aname[i]) == 0){
            printf("here");
            printf("Name is invalid! Please re-enter the name\n");
            j = 1;
        }
        else{
            printf("Here");

            a.name = strdup(aname);
            j = 0;
        }
    }


} while(j==1);

this is my validation and user input section

so after the name is entered it crashes (none of the here print statements are executed so I really do not know what to do or if I missed a step along the way any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Try something like: do { printf("Please enter the participant's name:\n"); scanf("%99s", aname); if(aname[0] != 0) j = 0; strcpy(ath.name, aname); } while(j==1);