Thread: segmentation error on a strcmp

I'm writing a program and I keep getting a segmentation fault/error on a line that has a strcmp.

Code:

void wordCount(char *words[100], int now)
{
 int  WC[100];
  int w;
  int x;
  int j;
  int i;
  
  for(i=0; i <= now; i++)
  {
   for(j= i+1; j <= now; j++) 
    {
    strcmp(words[i], words[j]);
      if(WC[i]== 0)
      {
       WC[i] = 1;
       if(words[j] == words[i])
        {
	 WC[i]++;
         WC[j] = -1;
 	 printf("%d:\t%s\n",WC[i],words[i]);
	}
      }
     
     else if(WC[i] == -1)
      {
       WC[i]++;
       printf("%d:\t%s\n",WC[i], words[i]);
      }
    }
  }  
}

If anyone could help me figure out the problem and how to fix it. And I use the function in another .c file that I compile at the same time.

Thanks.

How would I fix going off the end of the array?

That's not working

I'm just wondering if you plan to do anything with the return value of that wasted strcmp() call you've got in there...
Might also be a good idea to initialize wc[] to something...

Both of you have mentioned that. How would I initialize it? What am I missing?

Originally Posted by newbie73

Both of you have mentioned that. How would I initialize it? What am I missing?

Code:

int wc[100] ={0};

Will set all array elements to 0 ... otherwise they will contain whatever random garbage was in memory when it was created.