Thread: Trouble: Program to move strings from 1 file to another.

Hello!

My objectives for this program is to open and read a file "dict.txt" which has the following data:
4
dog
pepper
marker
teapot

It needs to rotate the inner letters one to the right so you'd end up with "mrkear" etc, and then write those words into a new file "scramble.txt" one per line.

I'm having a lot of problems understanding the program. Compiling is giving me a lot of warnings/errors.

I'm new to this and taking an online course so my resources for help are limited. My text is not being too helpful either.

If anyone is willing to school this novice I'd be eternally grateful.

Code:

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


#define MAXW 10     //max number of words in file
#define MAXS 81        //max size of string


void scramble(char *array[][MAXS]);


int main(void)
{
    int h = 1, i, num_words;    
    char words[MAXW][MAXS];
    char temp; //to hold string of number of words
    FILE *fpin, *fpout;


    if((fpin = fopen("dict.txt", "r")) == NULL) //error check
    {
        printf("Error: Couldn't open file.\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    
    
    temp = fscanf(fpin, "%s", words[0]); //reads number on first line 
    if(num_words = atoi(words[0]) != 0) //converts char to int and validates data
    {
        printf("Invalid line 1. Must but whole number.");
        exit(2);
    }    
    
    
    for(i=0; i<num_words-1; i++) //reads each line/word starting at 2nd line and scrables them
    {
        fscanf(fpin, "%s", words[i]);
        scramble(words[i][MAXS]);
    }
    
        
    if((fpout = fopen("scramble.txt", "w")) == NULL) //error check
    {
        printf("Error: Couldn't open file.\n");
        exit(3);
    }


    
    for(i=0; i<num_words-1; i++) //puts scrambled words in scramble.txt"
    {
        fputs(words[h], fpout);
        h++;
    }        


    
    fclose(fpin);
    fclose(fpout);


    return 0;
}


void scramble(char *array[][MAXS])
{
    int i = 0, j = 1, length;
    char temp;
        
    if(strlen(*array) < 4) //if word is only 3 letters function will stop
        return;


    else
    {
        length = strlen(*array-2);//starts with word [i] and moves the letters [j]    
        temp = *array[i][j];        
        for(j = 1; j<length; j++)
        {            
            *array[i][j] = *array[j]+1;
        }
        temp = [strleng(*array-1)];
    }
}

Code:

These are the errors that come up:
asn.c: In function ‘main’:
asn.c:35:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘scramble’ makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]

asn.c:8:6: note: expected ‘char * (*)[81]’ but argument is of type ‘char’

asn.c: In function ‘scramble’:
asn.c:64:2: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/usr/include/string.h:399:15: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘char **’

asn.c:69:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘strlen’ from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
/usr/include/string.h:399:15: note: expected ‘const char *’ but argument is of type ‘char **’

asn.c:73:17: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast [enabled by default]

asn.c:75:10: error: expected expression before ‘[’ token

Thanks for your help. It's slow going but I think I'm starting to make sense of it.