Thread: question about arrays

i was wondering how i could reset an array, I have a character array that i need to reuse over and over again in a funciton, so I would like to blank it out I've been trying things like

Code:

word[] = {}

word = { '\0'}

But I just get error messages, I just want it to be empty so i can use it again

thank you

i mean....

Code:

word [] = {'\0'}

Use the memset function or a for loop for each element. You can't zero out an array with = except at initalisation.

thanks for the tip, i've never used memset before, i looked it up but don't understand how to implement it

the definition I found looks like this

void *memset(void *s, int c, size_t n);

i've tried

Code:

memset(word,Max_size);

and different variations of that, but get errors

thank you

from the definition you can see that memset takes 3 parameters, but you are passing it two.

You seem to be passing the first and third parameters, but not the second. The second is the value. In the case of initalising to 0:

Code:

memset(word, 0, Max_size);