Thread: something strange happening when initializing an array from a file.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    FILE *ifp;
    ifp = fopen ("input.txt", "r");
    int alpha, scores [3], i, bravo[18], charlie;

    fscanf (ifp, "%d", &alpha);
    printf ("alpha = %d\n", alpha);

    for (i = 0; i<18; i++){
    fscanf (ifp, "%d", &bravo[i]);
    printf (" bravo = %d\n", bravo[i]);
    }

    printf ("alpha = %d", alpha);
    
    for (i=0; i < 4; i++)
    scores[i] = 0;

    printf ("alpha = %d", alpha);

return 0;
}

input file:
1
2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4



When I run this code, the value of alpha is '1' after the initial scanf. But after I get down to this loop to initialize the 'scores' array:

for (i=0; i < 4; i++)
scores[i] = 0;

The value changes to '0'. I don't understand why this initialization loop would change the value of alpha. Any help would be appreciated.