Thread: Parsing Help

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    Parsing Help

    I ran this on two compilers. One gave me a seg fault, the other runs it fine.

    Code:
    void parse(char *line)
    {
        char temp;
        int i;
        int j;
        int k, l;
        int length = 0;
        char *string = malloc(sizeof(char) * 50);
        char *firstName  = malloc(sizeof(char) * 50);
        char *lastName  = malloc(sizeof(char) * 50);
        
        do{
            if((*(line + i)>=65)&&(*(line + i)<=90))
            {
                k = 0;
                l= 0;
                j = i;
                while(*(line + j) != ' '){
                    j++;
                }
                j++;
                while(*(line + j) != ' '){
                    j++;
                }
                for(k = i; k < j; k++)
                {
                    *(string + l) = *(line + k);
                    l++;
                }
                //when I'm done it will pass string to another function that will check if it is a name or not, but for now I'm just printing it.
                printf("%s\n", string);
    
            }
            i++;
        }while(i < 100);
    
    }

    Any ideas as to why I get a segfault with one compiler? Or ways I can improve this?

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    Initialise the variable 'i'
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