#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

// This example prompts the user 3 times for a name and then writes them to myfile.txt 
// each one in a line with a fixed length (a total of 19 characters + newline). 
//  Two format tags are used:
//    %d : Signed decimal integer
//    %-10.10s : left-justified (-), minimum of ten characters (10), 
//                maximum of ten characters (.10), string (s).
					     
int main()
{
  FILE *pFile;
  int n;
  char name[100];
  char *c;

  pFile = fopen("myfile.txt","w");
  for (n=0 ; n<3 ; n++) {
      puts("please, enter a name: ");
      fgets(name, sizeof(name), stdin);
      // fgets includes the newline (i.e., \n) in the name
      // we replace the \n with \0 to terminate the string in
      // the array name
      c = strrchr(name, '\n');
      if (c != NULL)
	*(c) = '\0';
      fprintf(pFile, "Name %d [%-10.10s]\n", n, name);
  }
  fclose(pFile);

  return 0;
}