> I need to allocate 10 strings, and each string is 5 characters long. I used the following but did not seem to work.
It seems to work for me, what did you try?
Code:#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> int main() { char (*lines)[5]; lines = malloc(10 * sizeof(*lines)); strcpy(lines[0],"test"); strcpy(lines[1],"word"); strcpy(lines[2],"hey"); strcpy(lines[3],"it"); strcpy(lines[4],"does"); for ( int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; i++ ) printf("%s ", lines[i] ); printf("\n"); free(lines); return 0; } $ valgrind ./a.out ==4832== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==4832== Copyright (C) 2002-2010, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==4832== Using Valgrind-3.6.1-Debian and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==4832== Command: ./a.out ==4832== test word hey it does ==4832== ==4832== HEAP SUMMARY: ==4832== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==4832== total heap usage: 1 allocs, 1 frees, 50 bytes allocated ==4832== ==4832== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible ==4832== ==4832== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==4832== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 4 from 4)
