Pointer troubles

Hi!

I'm doing exercises with pointer; in order to create a random sentence generator I programmed an array of pointer to pointer .... to char.
But when i try to print the string randomly, several parts of them are truncated. i don't see why

Here is the code

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <time.h>

#define DIM 5
#define WI_DIM 4
#define WS_DIM 6

int main(void)
{
  unsigned char lil_cntr;      /* a little counter */

  char *article[DIM] = {"the", "a", "one", "some", "any"};
  char *noun[DIM]  = {"boy", "girl", "dog", "town", "car"};
  char *verb[DIM] = {"drove", "jumped", "ran", "walked", "skipped"};
  char *preposition[DIM] = {"to", "from", "over", "under", "on"};

  char ** words_index[WI_DIM] = {article, noun, verb, preposition};

  /* to have a sentence we use in sequence article, noun, verb,                                                                   
  preposition, article and noun: under here you find that                                                                         
  sequence in terms of words_index indexes */

  int word_sequence[WS_DIM] = {0,1,2,3,0,1};

  /* sentence composition */
  for (lil_cntr=0; lil_cntr <WS_DIM  ; ++lil_cntr){
      printf("%s ", (*words_index[ word_sequence[lil_cntr] ]) +  (dice(DIM) -1) );

  }
  printf("\n");
  return 0;
}


int dice(int faces )
{
  static i = 1;
  if(i){
      srand(time(NULL));
      i--;
  }

  return (1 + rand() % faces);
}

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E.g.

Code:

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luca@eee:~$ ./a.out
e boy ve rom the girl
luca@eee:~$ ./a.out
a girl rove o e boy
luca@eee:~$ ./a.out
a girl ove to the boy
luca@eee:~$ ./a.out
a  ve from  y
luca@eee:~$ ./a.out
 boy ve  boy

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??? :confused:

Code:

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printf("%s ", (*words_index[ word_sequence[lil_cntr] ]) +  (dice(DIM) -1) )

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Where does this add on to?

--
Mats

The output of the program should come as no surprise to you because you're randomizing the starting location in the array of strings.