declaring strings?

I am trying to declare a character string which is big enough to hold 12 variables but only initialized to hold 2.

I tried doing

char months [ 12 ] [ 2 ];

but that didnt work. I could use some help, thanks in advance.

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Originally Posted by s_jsstevens

I am trying to declare a character string which is big enough to hold 12 variables but only initialized to hold 2.

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I don't understand what it is that you're trying to do.

char months[12] will make a string that can hold 12 chars, including the terminating '\0' char.

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Originally Posted by s_jsstevens

I tried doing

char months [ 12 ] [ 2 ];

but that didnt work. I could use some help, thanks in advance.

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That declares 12 strings of size 2 (or something like that combination).

I need to declare a character string array called months which is big enough to hold 12 names, but initialized only to hold the first two names.

ignore my code i dont know what I am doing, I am new at this

So something like this?

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char *months[12] = {"Month 1", "Month 2"};

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Initalizing arrays like this will cause the rest of the array to be initalized to 0. That means all entries except the first 2 inside months will be NULL.

And also the first two entries are immutable (read-only).

Yes and no. The strings themselves are not editable, but you can make the pointers point elsewhere. You also can make them safely point elsewhere without worrying about a memory leak in this particular case, since you're using string literals.


Quzah.