How do you do this???
John Snow
snow at china.uu.net
Sat Dec 9 07:19:38 AEST 1989
I am writing a program where I need to dynamically allocate memory for
an array of strings (ie list[x][10]), but I can't seem to please the
compiler. I want to be able to use it in the form:
for (x = 0; x < n; x++)
strcpy (list[x], source[x]);
As a first shot I tried:
typedef ARRAY[][10];
...
{
ARRAY list; /* tried both 'list' and '*list' */
list = calloc (5, 10);
...
}
The compiler was not at all impressed with that. After trying several
things I finally found one that at least compiles and runs, even
though the compiler does gripe about it. That is:
{
char (*list)[10];
list = calloc (5, 10);
...
}
Even thought this *seems* to work, I don't have a warm-fuzzy because
of the compiler warning. Could somebody tell me how to do this in a
clean way? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
John
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