[Solved] garbage value in C array

In the function argument:

char arr[9][5]

In the loop:

for (i = 0; i<5; i++) {
    for (j = 0; j<9;j++) {
        if (arr[i][j] == 1)

You flipped the position of i and j. i should go from 0 to 9, j from 0 to 5.