hey, i'm trying to write a little guessing game program that has a couple levels and stages and you can save / load where you are, but i'm having problems with the loading. i just tried debugging and when choose which saveslot to load, the program stops and i got this error: An Access Violation (Segmentation Fault) raised in your program. the code for the load function is this: void load() { FILE *file1, *file2, *file3; int counter = 0; int loadfile = 0; printf("Which saveslot would you like to load from?\n1 - saveslot1\n2 - saveslot2\n3 - saveslot3\n::"); scanf("%d", loadfile); switch(loadfile) { case 1 : file1 = fopen("saveslot1.shibby", "r"); fscanf(file1, "%s", level); if(file1 == NULL) { printf("saveslot1 does not exist."); } else if (file1 != NULL) { printf("saveslot1 found, level: %s\n", level); } fclose(file1); break; case 2 : file2 = fopen("saveslot2.shibby", "r"); fscanf(file2, "%s", level); if (strcmp(level, nul) == 0) { printf("saveslot2 does not exist.\n"); } else if (file2 != NULL) { printf("saveslot2 found, level: %s\n", level); } fclose(file2); break; case 3 : file3 = fopen("saveslot3.shibby", "r"); fscanf(file3, "%s", level); if (file3 == NULL) { printf("saveslot3 does not exist.\n"); } else if (file3 != NULL) { printf("saveslot3 found, level: %s\n", level); } fclose(file3); break; } printf("Would you like to load this level: %s\nyes or no: ", level); while((pt=gets(loadlevel)) != NULL) { returnCode = puts(loadlevel); if (returnCode == EOF) { printf("\nError on input.\n"); } } if (strcmp(loadlevel, no) == 0) { nope(); } else if(strcmp(loadlevel, yes) == 0) { lvlchk(lvl); } else { printf("I'm sorry, %s is not a valid response.\n", loadlevel); start(menu, stage); } } any ideas of whats causing the error? thank in advance

wow.. thanks to my AWESOME debugging skills, i figured it out. the problem was here: scanf("%d", loadlevel); which should have been: scanf("%d", &loadlevel); pssh.. why couldn't they have made storing int's easy in C instead of waiting for C++..pssh.

"pssh.. why couldn't they have made storing int's easy in C instead of waiting for C++..pssh." - ...wtf? BlueRaja.admin@gmail.com

to store an int in C: scanf("%d", &intVar); to store an int in C++: cin >> intVar;

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yes, i know. it wasn't a literal question.. it was a "damn, that would have been easier 14 years earlier" kind of thing. lol