scanf(), Parameter Passing, and Character Arrays

Hello. I'm new here. Anyways, I'm trying to write a program where a user inputs strings into an array of character pointers using scanf(). However, everytime I run this program, I get segmentation faults. I don't know what is wrong with it. I've tried debugging it, but I couldn't pinpoint why scanf() is failing.

Here is my code:

Code:

#include "stdio.h"
#define SIZE 5

void input(char *string, char *string2);

int main(void)
{
   char *string[SIZE], *string2[SIZE];

   int counter;

   for(counter = 0; counter <= SIZE - 1; counter++)
      input(string[counter], string2[counter]);

   putchar('\n');
   for(counter = 0; counter <= SIZE - 1; counter++)
      printf("%s %s\n", string[counter], string2[counter]);

   return 0;
}

void input(char *string, char *string2)
{
   printf("Enter string 1: ");
   scanf("%s", string);
   printf("Enter string 2: ");
   scanf("%s", string2);
}

Thanks in advance.

You have'nt Dynamically allocated memory to your array of pointers. So in other words, You're pointers are pointing to garbage.

This can be fixed by doing this:

Code:

#define SIZE 5

char *string[SIZE], *string2[SIZE];

for (int i = 0; i < SIZE; ++i )
{

string[i] = malloc( amount_of_chars * sizeof(char));
string2[i] = malloc( amount_of_chars * sizeof(char));

}

#include "stdio.h"
Should be:
#include <stdio.h>

Also in addition to malloc'ing space for the strings, if you want to modify the actual string contents then you will need to have pointer to the strings (pointer to pointer to char) as arguments for your input function.