Question

I just started my C language and I came to this error. I tried to look up online but other threads contain ARRAY which I am not familiarize with.

#include<stdio.h>
int main(void){

    char input;
    printf("ASCII testing\n");
    scanf( "%d", &input); //the error occurs here but would like to know the solution

    printf("answer is : %c\n" , input);

    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

“Run-Time Check Failure #2 – Stack around the variable ‘input’ was corrupted.”

Simple point-out will be much appreciated

//Edited

Well I would like to enter value “66” so that the outcome would be B. The scanf(“%c , &input) accepts 1 keystroke from the keyboard so that’s not what I am looking for. But nevertheless, thank you for the replies

Answer 1

The %d format specifier in scanf() requires a pointer to an int variable, not a pointer to a char. Try:

int input;
scanf( "%d", &input);