Question

I’ve figured out on how to work around the string but I can’t seem to get it to work.
Maybe it’s because of the scanf that I’m using.
Please advise 🙂

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

int do_palindrome(char *str, int offset){
int ok = 1;
int length = strlen(str);

if(length/2 > 0)
    ok = (str[0] == str[length - 1 - offset])?
            do_palindrome(++str, ++offset):0;

return ok;
}
int main(){
int i = 0;
int ok = 0;
char* str[1] ;

    scanf("%c", str[1]);
    ok = do_palindrome(str[0], 0);
    printf("%s is palindrome? : %d\n", str[0], ok);


printf("Finished!");
return 0;

}

Answer 1

char* str[1] ;

declares an array of one char pointer

scanf("%c", str[1]);

reads a single char but tries to place it beyond the end of your array (C arrays are zero-based).

I think you want to read a string (char array). You can do this using

char str[20]; /* change the array size as required */
scanf("%19s", str); /* read one fewer chars than your array size */