Thread: creating a string in a buffer

  1. #1
    carrythe0
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    creating a string in a buffer

    I am having problems again.

    I have a char array buffer that is 50 elements long. It is initialized so all elems are Null \0. I also have a 2D array of strings that are defined. I have to randomly select one column in each row in the matrix to determine which string to put into the buffer. it's like this:

    static char *source [ROWS][COLS] =
    { {"A", "The", "one"},
    {" red", " polka-dot", " yellow"},
    .
    .
    .
    }
    so it randomly generates a sentence. Should I use strcpy or strcat to get these strings into buffer? especially when I don't know what each one's size is? How??

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    First use strcpy on the first string, then use strcat on the rest.
    // Gliptic

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