Question

My program is crashing.

Basically, the data is not passing through the array for the menu choice and I am wondering if anyone could check it over and see where the problem is.

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

void print_main_menu(char menu_items[5][10], int number_of_items) {
    int i;
    for (i = 0; i < number_of_items; i++) {
        printf("%s\n", menu_items[0][i]);
    }
}

int main () {
    char menu [5][10];
    menu [0][0] = "1 - Membership List";
    menu [0][1] = "2 - Waiting List";
    menu [0][2] = "3 - Committee List";
    menu [0][3] = "4 - Temporary List";
    menu [0][4] = "5 - Exit";

    /* 1 - Membership List */
    menu[1][0] = "1 - Whatever";
    menu[1][1] = "2 - Whatever";

    print_menu(menu, 5);

    getch();
}

Answer 1

First off: you declared your function as print_main_menu but you are calling it as print_main but this should resolve into a compilation error.

Secondly: you are using the two dimensional array incorrectly, apparantly you are using it as a two dimensional array of C strings, but you declared it as an array of characters.
This would be the right declaration:

char* menu [5][10];

Lastly: a lot of the array indices are not initialized, which means that they can point anywhere which will most likely produce a segmentation fault and crash your application.

EDIT: I’m also unsure if it is possible to pass an array to a function like you are doing it. It is most likely not a good idea to do so.