Thread: whats the meaning of this allocate ?

Originally Posted by Memloop

It allocates a dynamic array with "SOME INTEGER VALUE" number of elements of char pointer type (char*).

Which means, most likely, a series of strings similar to this (altho the char pointers in the array have not been allocated their own memory yet):

Code:

char stringray[4][20] ={ "the first string",  "this one's stringray[1]", "now stringray[2]", "our last string..." }

except dynamic in two dimensions (so it could be any number of strings of any length, as determined by the malloc calls).