Thread: Changing size of array of pointers

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    Changing size of array of pointers

    Well I have a list of characters strings stored with pointers in this array:
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    char *list[20];
    I never like hard coding numbers because of the way things can dynamically change. Is there a way to change the array size every time I find a new element to add? Probably something along the lines of realloc but I am not entirely sure.

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    Use dynamic memory allocation with malloc(), realloc() and free() from <stdlib.h>
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