Hi Everyone, I am working with pointers. I am tryin to input a value into a double array, and then output this value not with the double array variable itself but instead, I would like to use the pointer to the double array variable to output the user's input.

Here is my code.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std; // cin and cout

int main()
{
double weight[50]; // variable array weight of type double
double * p_pw; // pointer to weight pw

p_pw = &weight[50]; // pw is assigned the address of the weight array

cout << "input a value for your weight please: " << endl;
cin >> weight[50]; // store input in weight array

* p_pw = weight[50];

cout << " The weight that you inputed is \n" ; //
cout << * p_pw << endl; // should return the input from user


return 0;


} // end main

The program compiles fine, the segmentation fault error is listed right after I submit input. Here is a image of the error message I recieve.

jonathan@ubuntu:~/c++practice/chapter4$ ./a.out
input a value for your weight please:
23
Segmentation fault

If your comment "pw is assigned the address of the weight array" were correct, you should have:
p_pw = weight;
or equivalent
p_pw = &weight[0];

Your version sets p_pw to point to the address of the 51'st element of a 50 element array (in other words to the next object on the stack after that array).

But the rest of your code makes so little sense, I can't guess what you were trying to do.

Whatever it was should not be done that way.

An array declared with size 50 has elements 0 through 49. It does not have an element 50.

Edit: On review, I think I do have a guess what you may have been trying to do:
Notice I did not include your instruction
* p_pw = weight[50];
Even corrected to 49 instead of 50, that would confuse the example. The earlier code makes *p_pw the same object as weight[50]. Changing one of them changes the other. Copying one to the other is redundant.

The important change I made was to use the last element of the array instead of one past the last element.
Since your comments obscured your intention (if I'm now guessing it correctly), I also changed those.

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