fread error (reading a random access file sequentially)

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Please assist guys i've been killing myself over it for days trying to figure it out on my own and now the final due date is later on today

	/*
   Peter Moodie - Parking Space Allocation Software
*/




/*
	Preproccessor Directives( Header Files )
*/
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>
#include <stdlib>
#include <time.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <direct.h>

      
      FILE *cfPtr;
      FILE *file;
      


typedef struct robot ROBOT;

struct robot {
  char *rname;
  char *pass;
};
    ROBOT robots[3];



struct database{
   	char Fname;
      	char lname;
      	int work_hours;
        int acctNum;
   						};

struct database employees;






void create(void)//CODE TO WRITE TO RANDOM ACCESS FILE
{

file = fopen("C:/NixGen PSAS/credit.dat", "r+"); /* create a file for reading and writing */

if(file==NULL) {
printf("An error has occurred.\n");
}
else{
printf ("Enter account Number (1 to 100, 0 to end input)\n ");
scanf("%d", &employees.acctNum);
	while (employees.acctNum != 0) {
printf("Enter Last Name, First Name, Expected Work Hours\n ");
scanf ( "%s%s%f", &employees.lname, &employees.Fname, &employees.work_hours);
fseek(file, (employees.acctNum - 1) * sizeof(struct database), SEEK_SET);
fwrite(&employees, sizeof(struct database), 1, file);
printf("Enter account number\n ");
scanf("%d", &employees.acctNum);
}
}
fclose(file);
getch();
}



//THE ERROR LIES HERE
void viewemp(void)
{

file = fopen("C:/NixGen PSAS/credit.dat", "r");

if(file==NULL) {
printf("Error: can't open file.\n");
}
else {
printf("%6s%16s%11s%15s\n", "Acct", "Last Name", "First Name", "Balance");
while (!feof(file)) {
fread(&employees, sizeof(struct database), 1, file);
if (employees.acctNum != 0)
printf("%d", employees.acctNum);//IT PRINTS THE INTEGER
printf("%s", employees.lname); //THREAD ERROR WHEN IT COMES TO THE STRING
   }
    }
fclose(file);
getch();


            clrscr();
	 login();
            }

[elvis]

lname is a cingle character, not an array of characters

you print lname with %s as a NULL-terminated string, which it is not.
If you want just one character, use %c instead, but you probably
want a string. The current %s print statement will simply dump
memory until it finds a '\0' character, but it will probably hit a
segmentation fault before that

try defining the database structure with proper arrays,
such as

char lname[MAX_LNAME_LENGTH];

where you define the size for instance as

const int MAX_LNAME_LENGTH = 200;

(this comes before the struct database definition)

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Thank you so much, i figured it out at school today! xD
But i didnt know why it worked though, thanks a lot for the explanation!