Hi, I can't seem to get my program to work. I'm using qsort to sort some keyboard-input strings, but I get segmentation fault. I tried 3 versons, and none of them works. Could someone pinpoint the error?

#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<search.h>
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor);
main()
{
      int m,j;
      char strings[10][10];
      scanf("%d",&m);
      for(j=0;j<m;j++)
       scanf("%s",&strings[j]);
      qsort(strings,m,sizeof(char *),str_cmp);

      return 0;
}
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor)
{
    return (strcmp(*(const char **)prv, *(const char **)vtor));
}
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<search.h>
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor);
main()
{
      int m,j;
      char *strings[10];
      scanf("%d",&m);
      for(j=0;j<m;j++)
       scanf("%s",&strings[j]);
      qsort(strings,m,sizeof(char *),str_cmp);

      return 0;
}
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor)
{
    return (strcmp(*(const char **)prv, *(const char **)vtor));
}
#include<stdio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<search.h>
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor);
main()
{
      int m,j;
      char strings[10][10];
      char **pok;
      *pok=*strings;
      scanf("%d",&m);
      for(j=0;j<m;j++)
       scanf("%s",&strings[j]);
      qsort((void *)pok,m,sizeof(char *),str_cmp);

      return 0;
}
int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor)
{
    return (strcmp(*(const char **)prv, *(const char **)vtor));
}

I think a segmentation fault occurs when you are trying to use a memory location that it is not allowed to. For example, trying to write to a read only memory location or maybe even trying to use a particular memory location that has been allocated to another memory location. You have to be careful with memory allocation in C. I've just recently asked a question int he same kind of subject area. Maybe, read this.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault

I can't really pinpoint where this is happening at the moment, but I'm sure a more experienced member of the forum will be able to help soon.

Hope it helps.
Jonathon.

You using qsort to sort "strings of 10 chars", aren't you? So tou ought to pass to qsort proper size -- i.e. 10*sizeof(char). Also you wrote str_cmp rather unusual, I corrected it to be more simple. Try this one, it works:

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

int str_cmp(const void *prv,const void *vtor);
int main(void) {
  int m,j;
  char strings[10][10];
  scanf("%d", &m);
  
  // TODO: here may be assert that m < 10!
  
  for(j=0; j<m; j++)
    scanf("%s",&strings[j]);
  
  qsort(strings, m, 10 * sizeof(char), &str_cmp);

  printf("\nResults\n:");
  for(j=0; j<m; j++)
    printf("%s\n", strings[j]);    
  
  return 0;
}

int str_cmp(const void *prv, const void *vtor)
{
    return strcmp((const char*)prv, (const char*)vtor);
}

Also you wrote str_cmp rather unusual, I corrected it to be more simple.

Apparently, not only simpler - but also correct :) I still am not well versed with the pointers and strings analogy in C, maybe someone could explain why my code didn't work? I actually couldn't get the comparison part to work, so that is the same code I found on the internet as an example for a comparison function...

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