Thread: seg fault

Hello. I am new to C and I can't figure out why I am getting segmentation fault when I run this code:

Code:

/* prints a word backword */
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>
int main(void)
{
        int i;
        char word[40];

        printf("Please enter a word to be printed backword: ");
        scanf("%s", word);

        for (i = strlen(word); i >= 0; i--)                     // for loop
                printf("The word %s backword is %s\n", word, word[i]);

        return 0;
}

Thanks in advance.

Originally Posted by lord

Code:

        for (i = strlen(word); i >= 0; i--)                     // for loop
                printf("The word %s backword is %s\n", word, word[i]);

Replace that code with:

Code:

  printf("The word %s backward is ", word);
  for (i = strlen(word)-1; i >= 0; i--)                   
    printf("%c", word[i]);
  printf("\n");