I am working on a project and have hit a snag that I have spent hours trying to figure out. I'm fairly certain its very close to correct but obviously something is wrong in my malloc of the struct array. I'll post the code below so you can see it. The goal of this function set is to read in movie data saved in a file and put the data into a structure.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "support.h"
#include "scanner.h"
#include <string.h>
int counter(char *movierecords)
{
int count = 0;
char *name;
char *about;
int date;
int time;
char *rate;
char *ppl;
char *dir;
//printf("test");
FILE *fp = fopen(movierecords, "r");
//printf("gggg");
name = readString(fp);
while (!feof(fp))
{
//printf("test in loop");
about = readString(fp);
date = readInt(fp);
time = readInt(fp);
rate = readToken(fp);
ppl = readString(fp);
dir = readString(fp);
//printf("test read");
free(name);
free(about);
free(rate);
free(ppl);
free(dir);
//printf("test free");
count++;
name = readString(fp);
}
//printf("test escape loop");
fclose(fp);
//printf("test file close");
return count;
}
movie **readRecord(char *movierecords, int count) //mallocates space and reads data into an array of movie structures
{
int x = 0;
movie **data1;
FILE *fp = fopen(movierecords, "r");
data1 = malloc(sizeof(struct movie *) * (count + 1)); //mallocate space for the struct array movies1
printf("another test");
while (x < count + 1) //loop mallocates space for the string variables in movies1 struct for all movies
{
data1[x]->moviename = malloc(sizeof(char) * 1001);
data1[x]->description = malloc(sizeof(char) * 2001);
data1[x]->rating = malloc(sizeof(char) * 10);
data1[x]->cast = malloc(sizeof(char) * 512);
data1[x]->director = malloc(sizeof(char) * 30);
x++;
}
printf("test point3\n"); x = 0;
while (!feof(fp))
{
data1[x]->moviename = readString(fp);
data1[x]->description = readString(fp);
data1[x]->year = readInt(fp);
data1[x]->length = readInt(fp);
data1[x]->rating = readToken(fp);
data1[x]->cast = readString(fp);
data1[x]->director = readString(fp);
x++;
}
printf("test point4\n");
fclose(fp);
return data1;
}
Header file:
typedef struct entry
{
char *moviename;
char *description;
int year;
int length;
char *rating;
char *cast;
char *director;
} movie;
int counter(char *movierecords);
movie **readRecord(char *movierecords, int count);
Main:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "support.h"
#include <string.h>
int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int count = 0;
printf("%d", argc);
movie **data1;
count = counter(argv[1]);
printf("%d", count);
printf("hello");
data1 = readRecord(argv[1], count);
return 0;
}
