Trouble Declaring

Having trouble getting my head around declaring an array of C-strings(which themselves are arrays of chars). Any ideas?

Like
char strings[howmany][howlongeachoneis];

Like:

charArray1[]
charArray2[]
charArray3[]

words[3]
words[0] = charArray1
words[1] = charArray2
words[2] = charArray3

(You have to fill in the types.)

If you wanted to access the 2nd letter of charArray3, you would do this:

charArray3[1];

But since words[2] ==charArray3, you can make that direct substitution and write:

words[2][1]

Or if you want to dynamically allocate the amount of memory you need for each string, use

Code:

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char *array1[10];

// allocate however much memory you need with new for each item

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here's how i visualise what happens:

declare char array [5] [10];

here's what that looks like:

Code:

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    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
  -------------------------------
0  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
  -------------------------------
  -------------------------------
1  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
  -------------------------------
  -------------------------------
2  |  |  |  | x|  |  |  |  |  |  |
  -------------------------------
  -------------------------------
3  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
  -------------------------------
  -------------------------------
4  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
  -------------------------------

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now cout<<array[2][3];
will print out the value stored there, which is character x.
think of that as a co-ordinate system - first comes y-axis, then
x axis

>> Any ideas?

Switch to a vector of strings:

Code:

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std::vector<std::string> myemptydata;
// or maybe
std::vector<std::string> tenstringsofdata(10);

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