I'm writing a simple program in C, trying to teach myself the language for the first time and also leaing to use my (Mac) Terminal for the first time. However, I keep getting a segmentation fault error when I try to enter a variable (ssn) into scanf() to be saved. I changed the variable from an int to a long hoping to resolve the problem (which I looked up and thought had to do with memory availability/access) but to no avail. I would really appreciate some guidance, thank you! My code is below:
/* A short example program from cs449 C Programming Text */
/* Section 4.13 */
/* Exercise 4-1 */
/**********************************************************
* *
* Write a program to print a name, SSN, and DOB *
* *
**********************************************************/
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
char name[20]; /* an array of char used to hold a name */
long ssn; /* an integer for holding a 9 dig ssn */
long dob; /* an integer for holding a date of birth */
/* for the name */
printf("Please enter your name: ");
scanf("%s", name);
/* for the SSN */
printf("Please enter your ssn: ");
scanf("%ld", ssn);
/* for the date of birth */
printf("Please enter your date of birth:n");
printf("Ex. monthdayyear or 041293n");
scanf("%ld", dob);
/* final print of user-entered information */
printf("You are %s bo on %d and your SSN is %d", name, dob, ssn);
/* remember to always retu 0 at the end of a main funct! */
retu(0);
}
