Thread: Debug assertion failure (EXPRESSION: Str ! = null )

My program is supposed to read from a file to check number of words sentences ETC. It does this so far until I move the code into separate functions. It gives me the error that is in the topic title. Any ideas??

Code:

void findFile (char filename[], FILE *fp){
while (1){
    char filename[100];
   
    puts("Enter the name of the file to open");


    scanf("%s", &filename); 


    fp=fopen(filename, "r");
 


     
          if (fp == 0)
            {
              printf("\n\n%s file name not found!\n\n", filename); 
            } 
        
          else 
          {
            puts("File successfully opened");
            break; 
          }


  
   
}//End while loop


}//end function


/*************************Character counter function*************************************
Purpose: To count number of characters in a file
Parameters: 
Return: none
Input: 
Output:
***********************************************************************************/


void countChar (int charCount, int ch, FILE *fp)
{
       while (1) {
        ch = fgetc(fp);
       ++charCount;
 
        if (ch == -1)
            break;
          }
ch = 0;
         
  
 


printf("\nNumber of characters: %i\n", charCount);
    
    


 
}


void wordCount (char i, int wCount, FILE *fp)
{
while((i = getc(fp)) != EOF)
       {  


if ((i = getc(fp)) == ' ')
++wCount;
 
 }
  printf("Number of words: %i\n", wCount);
}

lol ive made it a mess from messing with different things to figure this out

searchFile

thanks, ill try that

any examples of a double pointer with this file pointer?

Thats what i just figured out. thanks for the help