Segmentation fault while taking string from user

Question

Code:

int main()
{
  char *name=NULL;
  int n;
  printf(\"\\nenter the string\\n\");
  scanf(\"%s\",name);
  n=strlen(name);
  printf(\"%d\",n);
  return 0;
}
         


        

Answer 1

Try this,

int main()

{
  char *name = malloc(sizeof( char ) * LENGTH); // define LENGTH as you desired

  int n;
  printf("\nenter the string\n");
  scanf("%s",name);
  n=strlen(name);
  printf("%d",n);

  free(name);
}

Problem is you did not allocate memory for pointer. So allocate memory tp pointer with malloc(BUFSIZE). Also at the end you have to free your allocated memory with free(name).