Question

I’m getting a strange error when reading my data into an array. My goal is to read a file that has a single column of numbers into an array, line-by-line.

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    int numArray = [20];
    int i = 0;

    FILE *infile;
    infile = fopen("numbers", "r");

    while(!feof(infile))
    {
        fscanf(infile,"%d",&numArray[i]);
        i++;
    }

    fclose(infile);
    return 0; }

This is my compile error:

sort_algorithms.c: In function ‘main’: sort_algorithms.c:6: error:
expected expression before ‘[’ token sort_algorithms.c:16: error:
subscripted value is neither array nor pointer

Answer 1

the correct way to declare an array in c is like this:

int numArray[20];