How can I pass values to struct variable I'm trying to get the employee information from the user then write them in a file, but I got a segmentation fault
after entering employee name.
This is my code.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
struct record_em{
int id;
char name[20];
int salary;
int age;
};
int main( void )
{
struct record_em employee;
FILE *fp;
int id, salary, age;
char name[20];
int n=1;
fp = fopen("empRecord.dat","a");
while(n==1){
printf("\nEnter Employee ID\n");
scanf("%d",&id);
employee.id=id;
printf("\nEnter Employee Name\n");
scanf("%s",name);
employee.name=name;
printf("\nEnter Employee Salary\n");
scanf("%d",&salary);
employee.salary=salary;
printf("\nEnter Employee Age\n");
scanf("%d",&age);
employee.age=age;
fwrite(&employee,sizeof(employee),1,fp);
printf("Enter 1 to add new record \n");
scanf("%d",&n);
}
fclose(fp);
return 0;
}
Output (taken from comment):
Fatmahs-MacBook-Air:~ fatmah$ gcc -o em em.c Fatmahs-MacBook-Air:~ fatmah$ ./em Enter Employee ID 88 Enter Employee Name uu Segmentation fault: 11
Change
scanf("%s",name);
employee.name=name;
to
scanf("%s",name);
strcpy(employee.name, name);
Of, better still, as suggested by Dukeling & hmjd
scanf("%19s", employee.name);