Sorting words from line-input in an array of strings

[duckdace]

Hi.

My intention is to receive input from keyboard, preferably a sentence(or a command with args, for that matter) with words divided by a space, and then store each of these words as an element in an array. This is my effort so far, but I don't seem to be able to make it work the way I want. Maybe I'm screwing up with the pointers, I don't know.

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

   char input[200];  
   char *param[5];   //array of the strings
   int i;
   int paramc = 0;    //wordcounter
   char tmp[50];  
   int j = 0;

printf("Say something");
scanf("%s", input);

 for (i=0; i< strlen(input); i++) {
      
      if (isspace(input[i])) {
	strcpy(param[paramc], tmp);
	j = 0;
	paramc++;
	}
      else { 
	tmp[j] = input[i];
	j++;
      }
    
 }
printf("%s", param[0]);    // this prints (null), for some reason. Propably obvious to many of you, but unfortunately not to me atm.

[Bayint Naung]

RTM of all the functions you use.
scanf() %s stops reading when encountered white space. temp is used un-initialized.
Edit: Your code should crash actually.param is array of pointers. You need to allocate memory.

[duckdace]

Ah, of course. Used fgets, allocated memory, and it seems to work. I have to improve the algorithm a bit, but I believe I can do that without help. Many thanks!