Thread: strcat makes program crash

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    strcat makes program crash

    //RANDOM SENTENCE GENERATOR USING STRCAT

    //I added the strcat command the program crashes..
    //This program is suppossed to genterate random sentences..
    //My teacher says that we HAVE TO USE STRCAT to catonate the sentences..
    //IN CLASS MY PROFESSOR COULDNT GET THE PROGRAM TO RUN EITHER



    #include<iostream>
    #include<ctime>
    #include<cstdlib>
    #include<string.h>// I also tried <cstring>


    using std::cout;
    using std::cin;
    using std::endl;

    int main()
    {



    char *art[ 5 ] = {"The", "This", "That", "Any", "A"};
    char *adj[ 10 ] = {"skinny", "hairy", "scary", "ugly", "bald",
    "big", "small", "tall", "long", "pretty",};
    char *noun[ 8 ] = {"girl", "house", "car", "toy", "man", "woman",
    "cat", "brother"};
    char *verb[ 10 ] = {"went", "jump", "skip", "ran", "swam",
    "moves", "walked", "talked", "hopped", "swirved"};
    char *prep[ 7 ] = {"with", "at", "by", "in", "to", "from", "under"};

    srand (time(0));

    int a = rand() % 5;
    int b = rand() % 10;
    int c = rand() % 8;
    int d = rand() % 10;
    int e = rand() % 7;

    char *s = " ";
    char *s1 = art[ a ];
    char *s2 = adj[ b ];
    char *s3 = noun[ c ];
    char *s4 = verb[ d ];
    char *s5 = prep[ e ];
    strcat(s1,s);//THIS IS WHAT MAKES THE PROGRAM CRASH
    //cout <<s1<<s<<s2<<s<<s3<<s<<s4<<s<<s5<<s<<s1<<s<<s2<<s< <s3<<".\n";

    return 0;
    }

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    >>//IN CLASS MY PROFESSOR COULDNT GET THE PROGRAM TO RUN EITHER

    1 - Get a new professor.
    2 - You're going over the buffer. You're concatenating 5 elements into an array of anywhere from 0 to 4 elements.
    3 - From what you've posted you aren't dynamically allocating your arrays even though that's what you would be doing in the scope of this program.
    4 - Get a new professor.

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    strcat program crashes

    what can i do to run the program??

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    Like this

    char s[1000];
    strcpy( s, art[ a ] );
    strcat( s, adj[ b ] );

    etc

    then

    cout << s;

    Man, the quality of teaching is in free fall...

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    thanks

    thanks..i guess i need a new professor..i hope i can pass the next c++ I a might not be properly prepared

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