using strlen() i got a segmetation fault.

[brack]

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void){
	char buf[81];
	int x;
		scanf("%s", buf);
		x = strlen( buf );
		printf("length: %d", x) ;
return 0;
}

in the above code i got this warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’
does anyone know why?


the next code is almost the same but it has a small change in the green marks.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(void){
	char buf[] = "I am a programer";
	int x;
		x = strlen(buf);
		printf("length: %d", x);
return 0;
}

My question is the following: when i use the 1st program typing "This is C book" returns lenght: 4 but in the second instead of "I am a programmer" if i write "This is C book" it will return lenght: 14
. Why?
i' ll be glad if anyone could help me! thanks in advance...

[sean]

i got this warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘strlen’
does anyone know why?

All the string functions are declared in <string.h>, so you need to include it.

when i use the 1st program typing "This is C book" returns lenght: 4 but in the second instead of "I am a programmer" if i write "This is C book" it will return lenght: 14

I believe that's because scanf is stopping at the first space. Putting a string literal in your code works, because the strings contains all the words and spaces. When you use scanf, if only really reads the first word, and is storing just that in the string. There are more advanced codes than %s that you can put in your format string to get scanf to behave differently (as a quick example: http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/218...e-white-spaces)

[brack]

oh yeah! stupid mistake...thanks again...

[kmdv]

You didn't mention anything about your segmentation fault.

scanf does not read line, but a word (token) separated by spaces (or new line characters).

It returns a correct length of 'This' which is 4.