Thread: assign values to string arrays

Hi,

I want to assign values to a string array, which is declared as char** stringArr, by reading a file. One line of the file is to be one element of the string array. My code is as the following:

Code:

char** stringArr;


char* l     = malloc(MAX_CHAR); //MAX_CHAR is defined
char** lp = stringArr;

int i = 0;
while( fget(l, MAX_CHAR, fp ) != NULL ){ //fp is the pointer to a opened file
     *lp++ = l;
      i++;
}

After that, when I checked the content of stringArr as the following, there are errors.

Code:

int j;
for ( j = 0; j < i; j++ ){
     printf("%s", *stringArr[j]);
}

Just quite confused what goes wrong here?

Many thanks!

Regards,
Paul

You are only allocating one string.

Quzah.

Code:

char** stringArr = malloc ( MAX_LINES * sizeof *stringArr );
for ( i = 0 ; i < MAX_LINES ; i++ ) stringArr[i] = malloc ( MAX_CHARS * sizeof *stringArr[i] );

Now you can read in MAX_LINES