I am getting segmentation fault when i compile my code.
I am not getting what is wrong with my code will be happy if someone can help me.
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main(int argc,char *argv[])
{
FILE *fp;
char fline[100];
char *newline;
int i,count=0,occ=0;
fp=fopen(argv[1],"r");
while(fgets(fline,100,fp)!=NULL)
{
count++;
if(newline=strchr(fline,'\n'))
*newline='\0';
if(strstr(fline,argv[2])!=NULL)
{
printf("%s %d %s",argv[1],count,fline);
occ++;
}
}
printf("\n Occurence= %d",occ);
return 1;
}
See man open and man fopen:
FILE *fp;
...
fp=open(argv[1],"r");
open returns an integer, not a file pointer. Just change that line to
fp=fopen(argv[1],"r");
Note: OP edited this error out of the code in the question, for those who wonder what this is about
Which leads us to (some other minor issues addressed as well - see comments):
+EDIT: point to places where error checking should be done:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
FILE *fp;
char fline[100];
char *newline;
int i, count = 0, occ = 0;
// for starters, ensure that enough arguments were passed:
if (argc < 3) {
printf("Not enough command line parameters given!\n");
return 3;
}
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
// fopen will return if something goes wrong. In that case errno will
// contain the error code describing the problem (could be used with
// strerror to produce a user friendly error message
if (fp == NULL) {
printf("File could not be opened, found or whatever, errno is %d\n",errno);
return 3;
}
while (fgets(fline, 100, fp) != NULL) {
count++;
if (newline = strchr(fline, '\n'))
*newline = '\0';
if (strstr(fline, argv[2]) != NULL) {
// you probably want each found line on a separate line,
// so I added \n
printf("%s %d %s\n", argv[1], count, fline);
occ++;
}
}
// it's good practice to end your last print in \n
// that way at least your command prompt stars in the left column
printf("\n Occurence= %d", occ);
return 1;
}
ps: so the error occurs during runtime and not during compile time - this distinction is quite crucial, because hunting down a compiler failure and solving a library usage error require rather different techniques...
Related
i am trying to create an program to generate empty files. but when it try to run the program it crashes after taking inputs from the console .
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
int create(char* filename)
{
char filext[10];
printf("\nEnter File Extension :");
fgets(filext);
FILE* fp;
fp = fopen(strcat(filename,strcat(".",filext)),"w");
if(!fp)
{
return 0;
}
fclose(fp);
return 1;
}
int main(int argc , char* argv[])
{
int f;
int i;
char buffer[33];
if (argc == 3)
{
for(i = 0; i < atoi(argv[2]) ; i++)
{
f = create(strcat(argv[1],itoa(i,buffer,10)));
if(f==0)
{
printf("error in creating files . check uac!!!");
}
else{
printf("\nfile Created ...\n");
}
}
}
else{
printf("syntax Error");
}
return 0;
}
when I try to run this program I get the following output
F:\selfcreatedtools\filegen>gcc gen.c
F:\selfcreatedtools\filegen>a level 100
Enter File Extension :php
after entering the extension the program crashes.
i am a beginner in c programming.
Your main problem lies in the strcat(".",filext) part of fp = fopen(strcat(filename,strcat(".",filext)),"w");
Try
strcat(filename, ".");
strcat(filename, filext);
fp = fopen(filename, "w");
And it might be better if the function definition header was made
int create(char filename[SIZE]) (where SIZE is a value less than the size filename will be) instead of int create(char* filename) since you are using strcat() to modify the string in the user-defined function create(). You wouldn't want illegal memory accesses that would cause errors if the string encroaches upon the memory allotted to something else.
A similar problem is there with using strcat() to modify the string at argv[1] as pointed out by Jonathan Leffler for which BLUEPIXY has provided a solution in the comments.
I am a beginner in c so I have a problem with get the user to input last name, a comma & then first name. However it will pass to the function call
int get_name(FILE *fp)
in my main function. I have a problem either if I have to use the arguments parameters.
Example, main (int argc, char *argv[])) or just main (void))
and from what I have been searching so far, FILE*fp cannot get the user to enter from stdin it only use to open the file(?) BUT I am required to get the user to input from keyboard and pass to the function. I have written some codes. but they don't seem to work but I am going to put down on here the one I am sure that I need a few changes most.
#define LINESIZE1024
int main(void){
FILE *fp;
char line[LINESIZE];
char first;
char last;
char comma;
while(1){
if(!fgets(line,LINESIZE,stdin)){
clearerr(stdin);
break;
}
if(fp = (sscanf(line,"%s %s %s",&last,&comma,&first)==3))
get_name(fp);
if(get_last_first(fp)== -1)
break;
printf("Please enter first name a comma and then last name");
}
BUT I got an error saying I can't use pass it from pointer to an integer. and many MORE but I accidentally closed my concolse and all the errors that appeared while I was trying to fix are gone. So please give me some ideas.
What about seconde code
while(1){
if(!fgets(line,LINESIZE,fp)){
clearerr(stdin);
break;
}
if(sscanf(line,"%s %s %s",last,comma,first)==3)
get_last_first(fp);
return 0;
}
It gave me errors too. fp,last,first,comma used uninitialized in this function
OK so I think I have fixed the previous problem now. However it doesn't print the name back if the name is given correctly. Here is my fixed main code.
int main(void){
FILE *fp = stdin;
char line[LINESIZE];
char first[16];
char last[16];
while(1){
if(!fgets(line,LINESIZE,stdin)){
clearerr(stdin);
break;
}
if(sscanf(line,"%s ,%s",last,first)==2)
if(get_name(fp)==2)
printf("Your name is: %s %s\n", first, last);
}
return 0;
}
here is my function.
int get_name(FILE *fp){
char line[LINESIZE];
char last[16], first[16];
int n;
/* returns -1 if the input is not in the correct format
or the name is not valid */
if(fgets(line, LINESIZE, fp) == NULL) {
return -1;
}
/* returns 0 on EOF */
if((n = sscanf(line, " %[a-zA-Z-] , %[a-zA-Z-]", last, first)) == EOF) {
return 0;
}
/* prints the name if it's valid */
if((n = sscanf(line, " %[a-zA-Z-] , %[a-zA-Z-]", last, first)) == 2) {
return 2;
}
return 1;
}
I thank you people so much for taking time to read and help me. Please don't be mean :)
Seems that you are making it more complicated than needed. Don't call fgets and scanf in main. Only do that in the function get_name.
It can be something like this:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define LINESIZE 1024
int get_name(FILE *fp)
{
char line[LINESIZE];
char* t;
if(!fgets(line, LINESIZE,fp))
{
printf("Error reading input\n");
return 0;
}
t = strstr(line, ",");
if (t)
{
*t = '\0';
++t;
printf("First: %s - Last: %s\n", line, t);
return 2;
}
printf("Illegal input\n");
return 0;
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
get_name(stdin);
return 0;
}
If you later decide that you want to read from a file, you can reuse the function get_name without changing it at all. All you need is to change main. Like:
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
FILE* f = fopen("test.txt", "r");
if (f)
{
get_name(f);
fclose(f);
}
else
{
printf("Open file failed\n");
}
return 0;
}
If you want to read from the keyboard, read from stdin or use scanf, which internally reads from stdin. If you want to read from a file instead, use FILE *fp, but don't forget to open the file and check if it was successful (you'll find lots of tutorials for this).
Further, when reading in strings, you need an array of characters, not a single one. Note further, that scanf can already deal with formats like "everything that is not a ',' then a ',' then a string. Note that format "[^,]" means "any character except a ',':
So you could adapt the code as follows:
#define LINESIZE 1024
int main(void){
char line[LINESIZE];
char first[LINESIZE];
char last[LINESIZE];
while(fgets(line,LINESIZE,stdin)) {
if(sscanf(line,"%[^,],%s",last,first)==2) {
printf("Read in %s ... %s\n",last,first);
}
else {
printf("Please enter first name a comma and then last name");
}
}
return 0;
}
And if your professor is picky concerning the "use FILE*", you could write:
FILE *fp = stdin;
...
while(fgets(line,LINESIZE,fp)) {
...
got some code here that won't compile correctly because it is saying that my pointer is already null when i am testing for a not null expression in my main function. here is the code :
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAXCODE 53
#define MAXMESSAGE 256
void getCode(char *codeIn, char *filename) {
FILE *codeFile;
/* Open the file with the code */
codeFile = fopen(filename, "r");
if (codeFile == NULL) {
printf("Error opening the code file - program terminated\n");
exit(1);
}
/* Read the first (and assumed only) line from the file */
fgets(codeIn, MAXCODE, codeFile);
/* Terminate the string with /0 */
codeIn[MAXCODE] = '\0';
/* Close the file */
fclose(codeFile);
return;
}
int getMessage(int *message, char *filename) {
FILE *messageFile;
int counter = 0;
/* Open the file with the message */
messageFile = fopen(filename, "r");
if (messageFile == NULL) {
printf("Error opening the message file - program terminated\n");
exit(1);
}
/* Read one number at a time from the file and store it */
while (!feof (messageFile))
{
fscanf (messageFile, "%d", (message+counter));
counter++;
}
/* Close the file */
fclose(messageFile);
return (counter);
}
void sortMessage(int *message, int size) {
int i, j, temp;
for (i=0; i<size-1; i++) {
for (j=i; j<size; j++) {
if (message[i]>message[j]) {
temp = message[i];
message[i] = message[j];
message[j] = temp;
}
}
}
return;
}
void decodeMessage(char *codeIn, int *message, int size) {
FILE *outputFile;
int i = 0;
/* Open the output file */
outputFile = fopen("csis.txt", "w");
if (outputFile == NULL) {
printf("Error opening the output file - program terminated\n");
exit(1);
}
for (i=0; i< size; i++) {
fprintf(outputFile, "%c", codeIn[message[i]%100]);
printf("%c", codeIn[message[i]%100]);
}
printf("\n");
/* Close the file */
fclose(outputFile);
return;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
char code[MAXCODE];
int msg[MAXMESSAGE];
int msgSize;
if (argc != 3) {
printf("This program takes two arguments: the name of the file with the code, and the name of the file with the encoded message\n");
}
getCode(code, argv[1]);
msgSize = getMessage(msg, argv[2]);
sortMessage(msg, msgSize);
decodeMessage(code, msg, msgSize);
return;
}
So basically my code is using two files called codefile.txt and msgfile.txt to decode the secret message and write the decoded sequence to a new text file called csis.
As woolstar pointed out in the comments, you don't need to NUL terminate your codeIn array following fgets, because fgets will do that for you. In fact, this constitutes an overflow which we can best see by considering what happens when MAXCODE is 1: codeIn contains only one element: codeIn[0], and accessing codeIn[1] is an error.
Similarly, since MAXCODE is 53 and that's how many elements pointed to by codeIn, codeIn[message[i]%100] is suspicious because there's a potential for message[i]%100 to be an invalid index. While we're on this note, it might be wise to make message[i] an unsigned int so that it can't be negative. The format specifier (for printf and scanf) corresponding to unsigned int is %u.
while ( !feof(messageFile) ) is wrong because the EOF flag isn't set until an attempt is made at reading. Between attempting to read and your EOF test, however, you've incremented counter which means you've counted one too many items. Perhaps your loop should look like this:
while (fscanf(messageFile, "%d", (message+counter)) == 1)
{
counter++;
}
Note that this code assumes you've chosen to keep message[i] as an int. If you've chosen to use unsigned int instead, of course you'll want to use the %u format specifier.
You can probably see that feof is mostly superfluous... You can usually test for erroneous reads by checking the return value. Try to avoid feof in the future.
Your main function has a return type of int, yet at the end of it you have a return; statement which doesn't return an int value. Remove that. It's probably causing errors during compilation.
Presumably, when argv != 3 you want to return from main so you don't end up processing invalid arguments... Make sure you return an int value, e.g.
if (argc != 3) {
printf("This program takes two arguments: the name of the file with the code, and the name of the file with the encoded message\n");
return 0;
}
I created a function to print the contents of a file:
void readFile(char* filename)
{
int c ;
file = fopen(filename, "r");
printf("The contents of the file are:\n");
while((c = fgetc(file)) != EOF)
{
printf("%c", c);
}
return;
}
where file is a global variable. GDB gives output as follows:
_IO_getc (fp=0x0) at getc.c:39
39 getc.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0 _IO_getc (fp=0x0) at getc.c:39
#1 0x000000000040075e in readFile ()
#2 0x00000000004006d4 in main ()
However, the file is present and I get the SEGFAULT after printing the contents of the file. It might be because the buffer here (c) is small but I am not sure. Also, I don't know how do I fix this even if that were the case. Can anyone suggest how do I proceed?
EDIT
I call the readFile function only once. Here is my calling function:
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char * filename;
filename = argv[1];
readFile(filename);
printf("File Handler: %ld", (long)file);
fclose(file);
return 0;
}
You're passing in a filename that doesn't exist or for some other reason cannot be opened. Get rid of the segfault by checking for errors (you'll need to #include <errno.h> and <string.h> too for this:
void readFile(char* filename)
{
int c ;
file = fopen(filename, "r");
if (file == NULL) {
printf("Cannot open file '%s' : %s\n", filename, strerror(errno));
return;
}
printf("The contents of the file are:\n");
while((c = fgetc(file)) != EOF)
{
printf("%c", c);
}
return;
}
Most likely your file is NULL and you are still trying to read it.
I simulated this behaviour (SEG fault) when I deleted this file.
If file exists then your code works fine.
Check what path you are passing.. If you are using single \ try with \\ and see if this works. First \ will work as escape sequence and final path will be send as D:\temp\use.dat to fopen.
readFile("D:\\temp\\user.dat");
Before you do anything with a file, you must ensure that you opened it successfully. This is done by checking that the file pointer received by calling fopen is not NULL.
Once you do this, you read using whatever function you choose until it returns a value that indicates failure to read — a NULL pointer for fgets, 0 or EOF for fscanf, or EOF for fgetc.
In any case, you challenge these return values in two ways. The first way is to check for read errors using ferror. The other way is to check whether the end of the file was reached using feof.
A complete program that should work, based upon your code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
enum { OPEN_ERROR = 1, READ_ERROR };
enum { PARAM_EXIT = 1, OPEN_EXIT, READ_EXIT };
FILE *file = NULL;
int readFile(char* filename)
{
int c;
file = fopen(filename, "r");
if (file == NULL)
return OPEN_ERROR;
printf("The contents of file '%s' are:\n", filename);
while((c = fgetc(file)) != EOF)
printf("%c", c);
/*
* fgetc returns EOF on end of file and when an error occurs.
* feof is used to determine whether the end of the file was reached.
* Otherwise, we encountered a read error.
*/
if (feof(file))
c = 0;
else
c = READ_ERROR;
return c;
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int status = 0;
if (argc == 1) {
fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s file\n", argv[0]);
return PARAM_ERROR;
}
/* Check that <program ""> wasn't used... */
if (argv[1][0] == '\0') {
fprintf(stderr, "error: empty filename detected, exiting. . .\n");
return PARAM_ERROR;
}
switch (readFile(argv[1])) {
case 0:
break;
case OPEN_ERROR:
fprintf(stderr, "error: file open failed - %s\n", strerror(errno));
status = OPEN_EXIT;
break;
case READ_ERROR:
fprintf(stderr, "error: file read failed - %s\n", strerror(errno));
status = READ_EXIT;
break;
default:
fprintf(stderr, "error: unknown error occurred, aborting...\n");
abort();
}
if (file != NULL)
fclose(file);
return status;
}
Of course, normally you would close the file in the same function in which it was opened (e.g. something like filep = openFile(...); readFile(filep); fclose(filep);, except error handling would be used of course).
I am completely changing my answer
Actually, the file that I was reading was open in gedit (which might explain why I was getting "NULL" even after printing the file contents. I closed the file and removed my NULL comparison code and it works perfectly fine.
Ok, from everybody's comments I got to know that you basically get a SEGFAULT when you read the contents of file that has NULL contents. I just made a simple fix in my while loop:
while((c != EOF))
{
printf("%c", c);
c = fgetc(file);
if(c == NULL)
break;
}
Problemo solved! (Although, the compiler gives me a warning of "comparison between pointer and integer".)
I am writing code which very simply reads in a file and prints out what was in the file appropriately.
I have always struggled with getting such a program to terminate upon end of file and think I've found the appropriate solution, however each line is printing twice in my output, for a reason beyond me.
Here is my main file:
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
// insure 2 arguments given, one for a.out and one for the test file
if (argc != 2) {
// result if request fails
printf("Requires 2 arguments. Be sure to include test file location\n");
return 0;
}
FILE *fp; //open the file
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
char option;
int key;
int i = 0;
while (fscanf(fp, "%c %d", &option, &key) != EOF) {
printf("%d\n", key);
}
}
The key is printing twice!
Hopefully this is a simple error I'm just overlooking due to overexposure to the problem.
You probably want:
fscanf(fp, "%c %d\n", &option, &key);
And you also want to check the return value of fscanf to make sure it equals 2.
In the first iteration of your loop, the newline is not being consumed.
In the second iteration, the newline is consumed and put in option, and the %d does not match, and fscanf returns 1. key is unchanged which is why it gets printed again.
In the third iteration, fscanf finally returns EOF.
General rule: Always check return values to ensure they are what you expect. (You also violate this rule by failing to check the return from fopen.) At worst it does nothing; at best, it helps you debug problems like this.
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Requires 1 argument - a file name\n");
return 1;
}
FILE *fp; //open the file
if ((fp = fopen(argv[1], "r")) == 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open file %s\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
}
char option;
int key;
while (fscanf(fp, "%c %d", &option, &key) == 2)
printf("%d\n", key);
return 0;
}
Note the changes in error reporting, and in the file reading process. The code is still probably not quite what you want; you might get the newline after the number after the first line of input stored in option after the first line. Fixing that requires fgets() and sscanf():
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc != 2)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Requires 1 argument - a file name\n");
return 1;
}
FILE *fp; //open the file
if ((fp = fopen(argv[1], "r")) == 0)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Failed to open file %s\n", argv[1]);
return 1;
}
char buffer[1024];
while (fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), fp) != 0)
{
char option;
int key;
if (fscanf(fp, "%c %d", &option, &key) == 2)
printf("%d\n", key);
else
{
fprintf(stderr, "Format mismatch on %s", buffer);
fclose(fp); // Not 100% necessary here, but tidiness is important
return 1;
}
}
fclose(fp); // Not 100% necessary here, but tidiness is important.
return 0;
}
Although I closed fp before the end, it is not crucial when the program is about to exit, and return from main() is pretty much equivalent to exit(). If it was in a function other than main() though, it is very important to ensure that you free any resource you allocate, such as the file stream fp.
Warning: uncompiled code. Caveat Lector.