...currently am practicing to fill a struct that contains an array(char array to store multiple elements). The scenario am trying to implement is as follows:
- The general task is (to store student information, name as string and courses taken by the student as a list or char**)
- student information is first loaded from file!(myfile.txt)
- tokenize/parse student information and load to struct
The file that contains my student information is:
myfile.txt (each line contains student name and list of courses) delimited by ":"
Austin Barbra:Biology,chemistry,maths,music
Romio Chandra:Mechanics,IT,Geology,music,Astronomy
.
.
My main.c is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define path "myfile.txt"
typedef struct student_info
{
char *studt_name;
char *cources_as_string;
char **cources_as_list;
}std_info ;
std_info *myinfo; //a global var that will conatain student info
int student_count = 0,cource_count=0;
void load_file()
{
int i,yu,index=0;
char *line =NULL,* token = NULL;
size_t len=0;
FILE *fp;
fp =fopen(path,"r");
if(fp==NULL)
{
perror("FILE OPEN ERROR[IN load_file]: ");
return;
}
if (( myinfo = (struct student_info *) malloc( 2 * sizeof(myinfo) ) ) == NULL)//malloc for 2 students
puts ("malloc fail");
while (getline(&line, &len, fp) != -1 )
{
strtok(line,"\n");
char *token;
token = strtok(line,":");
myinfo[index].studt_name=(char * ) malloc(200 * sizeof(char ) );
strcpy(myinfo[index].studt_name,token);
token = strtok(NULL, ":");
myinfo[index].cources_as_string=(char * ) malloc(200 * sizeof(char ) );
strcpy(myinfo[index].cources_as_string,token);
index++;
}
student_count = index;
fclose(fp);
}
char** return_cource_list(char* cources_string)
{
char *token;
char **cource_list = malloc (sizeof (char *) * 10);
int index = 0;
//course_string is delimited by ",": (eg. Biology,chemistry,maths,music). parse this and add to my char ** variable.
token = strtok(cources_string,",");
cource_list[0]= token;
while (token != NULL)
{
cource_list[index]= token;
token = strtok (NULL, ",");
index++;
}
cource_count = index;
return cource_list;
}
int main()
{
int i,j;
load_file();
for(i=0;i<student_count;i++)
{
printf("============================\n");
printf("NAME: %s >>COURCE_string: %s\n",myinfo[i].studt_name,myinfo[i].cources_as_string);
char ip_list[200];
char** std_cource_list = return_cource_list(myinfo[i].cources_as_string);
for(j=0;j<cource_count;j++)
{
printf("\tCOURCE_list[%d]: %s\n",j,std_cource_list[j]);
//segmentation fault exists here, to copy "std_cource_list[j]" to my struct...(need help here).
strcpy(myinfo[i].cources_as_list[j],std_cource_list[j]);
}
}
}
The problem am facing is to fill the "char **cources_as_list;
" member of the struct. Am getting a seg_fault from the inner for loop(iterating on j). Do i miss something in my code?