Help with File pointers in C

[whiteCoding]

Say I have the following code:

 #include<stdio.h> 
#include<stdlib.h>
 
void fileOpener(FILE*);
 
int main(void)
{
FILE *fpFile;
char test[14];
 
fileOpener(fpFile);
 
fgets(test, sizeof(test), fpFile);
 
return(0);
}
 
 
void fileOpener(FILE *fpntr)
{
fpntr = fopen("inst.dat", "r");
}
 
 

What I'm trying to do is be able to open the stream in fileOpener and then be able to make manipulations back up in main or pass the address of the pointer on to subsequent functions. When I try to compile the code I get a Segmentation Fault. Could someone help me out??? I'd greatly appreciate it.

[Niheel]

Anyone with C experience that can help whiteCoding out?

[yeo]

try passing by value instead of address, since the pointer itself already represents a memory location, passing the "address of an address" does not make sense. So it would be:

int fileOpener(FILE*);
 
int main(void)
{
FILE *fpFile;
char test[14];
 
fpFile = fileOpener(fpFile);
 
fgets(test, sizeof(test), fpFile);
 
return(0);
}
 
 
int fileOpener(FILE *fpntr)
{
fpntr = fopen("inst.dat", "r");
 
return fptr;
}