Thread: Simple Scanf question for beginner

So Im back to programming in C after a long Python hiatus, and boy is it a lil rough going from one to the other.

anyways im taking in an input file that will always have 2 columns of numbers, something like this:

2.31 32.1
7.52 54.2
21.12 1.2

i want to scan in the first number as a variable X and the second as a variable Y then they will be added to a dynamic array blah blah blah, that all works.

this is what I am doing and it causes a seg fault:
a = fscanf(inputFile, "%f%*[\t]%f", X,Y);

just doing fscanf(inputFile, "%f", X); worked nicely on getting the first number, but i want to get the second in the same line so I can turn it into a while loop.

any help is appreciated greatly

If X and Y are floats then you should pass their addresses to fscanf, not their values.

Code:

fscanf(inputfile, "%f %f", &X, &Y);