Thread: Segfaulting Distance Program

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    Segfaulting Distance Program

    I got a book that one of the excersises is to write a program to tell the distance of something. I have the program written, but it segfaults where I put the comment.

    Code:
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <math.h>
    
    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        float distance;   //total distance
        float x[2];          //the x coordinates
        float y[2];          //the y coordinates
        char line[100];  //the read line
        
        printf("What is x1?\n");
        fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
        sscanf(line, "%f", x[0]);
    
       /*It segfaults here*/
    
        printf("\n\nWhat is x2?\n");
        fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
        sscanf(line, "%f", x[1]);
        
        printf("\n\nWhat is y1?\n");
        fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
        sscanf(line, "%f", y[0]);
        
        printf("\n\nWhat is y2?\n");
        fgets(line, sizeof(line), stdin);
        sscanf(line, "%f", y[1]);
    
        distance = sqrt(((x[1] - x[0]) * (x[1] - x[0])) + ((y[1] - y[0]) * (y[1] - y[0])));
        
        printf("\n%f", distance);
      
      system("PAUSE");	
      return 0;
    }
    Any help is greatly appreciated.

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    change this

    Code:
    sscanf(line, "%f", x[0]);
    to

    Code:
    sscanf(line, "%f", &x[0]);

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    ah, thanks

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