Thread: Simple string question

Thanks a lot, I got it! I spend all day on this stupid problem. I had to change a few things in your code so here is the working version if anyone else cares.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void sayHi(char **);

int main()
{
	char **str;
	str = malloc(sizeof(char *));     /* allocate space for the pointer to the pointer to the character */

	*str = malloc(6 * sizeof(char)); /* allocate space for the string itself - you could also do this in sayHi */

	sayHi(&str);
	printf("srt: %s\n", str);
	return 0;
}

void sayHi(char **str)
{
	char *temp = "hello\0";
	strncpy(*str, temp, 6);  /* copy the characters pointed to by temp into the ones pointed to by *str - up to a maximum of 6 - we don't want any buffer overflows around here */

	printf("str: %s\n", *str);
}