Thread: character pointer clarification

Hi! If I make a pointer to an array of characters like this:

char *text[50];

Will that be a pointer to a string that is 49 characters long? I want to make a list of words, where each word is at most 49 characters long.

And if what I did was correct, how would I access each different word? Should I make another pointer that points to text and increment it? And should that new pointer also be declared with the 50 tacked at the end?

Thanks.

>char *text[50];
This is an array of 50 pointers to char. It's similar to a 2D array.

-Prelude

Hmm...
char * text[50]
is an array of 50 char *s.

Maybe this is what you need?
typedef char fiftycharstring[50];
fiftycharstring * text;
Which is a pointer to a string of length 50.