I'm not sure why this code is giving the error message "warning: excess elements in array initializer". I've taken a look at:

http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~grant/Teaching/COMP205/string.html

and the example at the bottom seems to be similar to what I'm doing with this code. Can anyone shed any light on the matter. Any help is appreciated, thanks.



Code:
const int accepted_files = 13;
/*compare user file types against file types accepted*/
int
file_type_compare(char *file_type)
{
    char *accepted_file_types[accepted_files] = {
            "mp3",
            "wma",
            "wav",
            "m4a",
            "ogg",
            "pmg",
            "pls",
            "m3u",
            "bmp",
            "gif",
            "jpg",
            "png",
            "tiff"
    };
    int f;
    for(f = 0; f < accepted_files; ++f)    {
        if (!strcasecmp(*accepted_files[f], *file_type))    /*precaution against the user using mixed or upper case*/
            return 0;    /*exit, matched a type*/
    }
    die(_("File type \"%s\" matched no type, accepted file types are: put something here\n"), file_type);
}
The compile error:

Code:
metadata.c:1202: error: variable-sized object may not be initialized
metadata.c:1203: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1203: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1204: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1204: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1205: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1205: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1206: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1206: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1207: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1207: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1208: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1208: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1209: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1209: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1210: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1210: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1211: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1211: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1212: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1212: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1213: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1213: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1214: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1214: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1216: warning: excess elements in array initializer
metadata.c:1216: warning: (near initialization for ‘accepted_file_types’)
metadata.c:1219: error: subscripted value is neither array nor pointer