Thread: new c programmer really needs help!

Hi everyone,
I'm new to C programming and I'm trying to write a program that can print text in columnar format with a maximum width.
I've been trying with this but I get a seg fault. Am I going about this the right way? Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks,
Cam

Code:

#include "columnarText.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

void textPrint(const char *text, const int columnWidth){
	int lineLength = 0;
	int count = 0;
	int stop = 0;
	int finish = 0;
	while(stop!=1){
		
		char *currWord;
		int i=0;
		int k=count;
		
		while(strcmp(text[k]," ")!=0){
			if(strcmp(text[k],"/0")==0){
				finish = 1;
				break;
			}
			currWord[i]=text[k];
			k++;
			i++;
			count=k;
		}
		currWord[i]="/0";
		i=0;
		
		if((strlen(currWord)+lineLength)<column){
			printf("%s",currWord);
			lineLength+=strlen(currWord);
		}
		else{
			printf("/n");
			printf("%s",currWord);
			lineLength = strlen(currWord);
		}
		if(finish==1){
			stop=1;
		}
	}

}

int main(void)
{
	char *s = "This is a test string to test my program with.";
	textPrint(s,10);
	return 0;
}

char *currWord is a pointer; currently it points to nowhere in particular. Thus when you to try to set currWord[i], bad things happen.