Thread: Getting weird characters in Strings

I am currently having a problem with strings and pointers. I am reading in from a file to two different arrays.

/*******
example file:

DEF CONE
DEF STAR
********/

The "DEF" goes into the first array and the "CONE" goes into the second array. When I test these out in main they print out correctly. But when I pass there reference to pointers in other functions I have problems with the first array. When I try a test print in another function, the pointer to the first array prints DEF then prints a few weird characters after it. They are extremely weird symbols. The strange thing is, when I do the same with other pointer to the second array it prints out fine in the other function. I am extremely puzzled to why this is happening. It anyone can help it would great.

I think the first string was red by your program and your pointer
has not allocated the proper memory for it, so printing the result
(with your pointer) will print your string and a lot of mess behind it, because it don't know where to stop.
The second will be succesfull, because and end of line is added
behind the string and putted in memory where your second pointer points to ... so when printing it stops after the end of line character.

You should allocate memory for your pointers !