Question

im trying to copy some texts from a file and save them in struct members, i run my program on cmd.exe and it crashed, but when i run it on codeblocks or visual studio it works,

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>

struct AMIGOS 
{ 
    char nom[' '];
    char apellido[' '];
    char nompila[' '];
    char tel[' '];
    char correo[' '];
    char dir[' '];
    char fecha[' ']; 
};

int main()
{
    struct AMIGOS reg;
    char registro[128];

    char**datos;
    char*dato;
    datos = (char**)malloc(10*sizeof(char**));
    int tam;
    int i=0;

    FILE* pt = fopen("arch.txt","r");
    if(pt==NULL)
    {
        printf("filenotfound\n");
    }
    else
    {
        while(fgets(registro,128,pt))
        {
            dato = strtok(registro,"|");
            while(dato)
            {
                tam = strlen(dato);
                datos[i] = (char *)malloc(tam);
                memcpy(datos[i],dato,tam);
                datos[i][tam]=0;
                i++;
                datos[i]=0;
                dato = strtok(0,"|");
            }    
        }
        strcpy(reg.nom,datos[0]);
        strcpy(reg.apellido,datos[1]);
        strcpy(reg.nompila,datos[2]);
        strcpy(reg.fecha,datos[3]);
        strcpy(reg.tel,datos[4]);
        strcpy(reg.correo,datos[5]);
        strcpy(reg.dir,datos[6]);

        printf("%s\n",reg.nom);
        printf("%s\n",reg.apellido);
        printf("%s\n",reg.nompila);
        printf("%s\n",reg.fecha);
        printf("%s\n",reg.tel);
        printf("%s\n",reg.correo);
        printf("%s\n",reg.dir);
    }    
}

the text on the file:

kevin|clark|ns|march 15 2001|5555555|[e-mail]|123 street

does anybody know why it crash when i try to run it on cmd.exe ?

Answer 1

This is writing beyond the end of the array:

tam = strlen(dato);
datos[i] = (char *)malloc(tam);
memcpy(datos[i],dato,tam);
datos[i][tam]=0;                 <---- 'tam -1' is the last element

You need to add an additional character to store the null terminator, or you could just use strdup():

datos[i] = strdup(dato);