Hello!
I was using the scanf function for inputtig the character.
scanf("%s",&ch); in gcc, program shows no fault while compilation, but gives "Segmentation Error" while executing.
What is this "Segmentation Error" means?
waitting to hear you
Thanx for youe time and patience
Regards
Harbir

correct for one input character:
for many characters (strings)
Segmentation Error comes, when you write something into memory which is not previously allocated by process

i did the same thing, thanks for letting me know.
if i use
char ch;
scanf("%s",&ch);

then do i need to include string.h

the following code works fine with Turbo C, but with gcc it give the error "Segmentation Fault" at the run time and do not repeate as it should be with the do-while loop.
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#include<stdio.h>
#define si 10

int main()
{
int search(int num,int ke,int x[]);
char ch='y';
int i,j,key;
int a[si]={0};
i=j=key=0;



printf("\nEnter the elements in the array: ");

for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
scanf("%d",&a[i]);
}

do
{
printf("\n________\nEnter the value to be searched: ");

scanf("%d",&key);

j=search(si,key,a);

if(j != -1)
{
printf("\n~~~~~~~\nThe valu is at a[%d] element",j);
}
else
{
printf("\n~~~\n Sorry the value does not exist");
}

printf("\nDo u wish t continue: ");

scanf("%s",&ch);

}while(ch != 'n');

return 0;
}
int search(int num,int ke,int x[])
{
int i=0;
for(i=0;i<num;i++)
{
if(ke==x[i])
{
return i;
}
}
return -1;
}
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You are joking man,

read carefully my first post.

you must have %c in scanf function.
BTW:
If you try it in DOS (TURBO C compiler), it will work. But you will rewrite foreign memory. So if you will use system longer, it will crash one-day. But Linux recognize foreign memory and do fault and thus protect others processes.

segmentation errors are errors you get when running the program, all it means is that the program tried to write to memory it does not own (didn't allocate, or something of that sort)