These two lines are very dangerous...

fscanf(pf,"%s",&ascCred);
fscanf(pf,"%s",&ascCod); //load into a string variable

A buffer overflow will trash Cod[] and *pf

Don't use scanf() if you want stable and secure code.


At 07:19 AM 11/13/2006, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>I did a program, which reads a file and loads numbers into a 100 x 2 array.
>I've used dev-c++.
>
>Then I went to another computer with VC++ 6.0, and the variables in the main
>appeared to be corrupted.
>The array is a global variable.
>I've found that changing the position of FILE *pf stops the function to
>destroy all main variables contents.
>In dev c++ never happens.
>
>FILE *pf has to be the first declaration in a function?
>
>Since so many firewalls are stripping out zip files, I have sent the code
>as corrupt.zix. Save this file to disk and rename it corrupt.zip
>The code to test is inside.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>Dennis.
>
>
>
>
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