Thread: Problem with Pointer as return Argument

Hello, I am new to this place. Could you help me wit the following problem. Well the Pointer I trie to print in main doesn't show the content I have in the txt-File. I think I would feel better if I had an Array of Numbers instead of Chars after reading in the txt-File which only contains numbers, seperated with a "space bar".

Code:

int main(){

    //einige Standard-Variablen
    int i = 0;
    int j = 0;
    int z = 4;

	//here I want to pass the Pointer from the Funktion to to another Pointer in Main
	char * pSpielstaerken;
	pSpielstaerken = einlesen();
        //THIS IS THE PROOF, THAT IT DOESN'T WORK
        while( pSpielstaerken[i] != '\0' ){
           printf( "%i ", pSpielstaerken[i] );
           i++;
        }   
}

//this is the Function to Read in a txt-File, pass it to a Char-Array in order to return it finally to the main Function
char * einlesen(){
    FILE * input2;
    char charPuffer[50];
    char * pCharpuffer;
    pCharpuffer = &charPuffer[0];
    input2 = fopen("input2.txt","r");
    if (input2==NULL){
                     printf ("Fehler beim Einlesen");
                     }

    else {
         fgets (charPuffer, 50, input2);
         fclose (input2);
         }

    int i = 0;
return (pCharpuffer);
}

It works now, thank you very much.