Thread: help with basics

Instead of malloc, realloc, why not use std::vector and std::string? The C++ standard library shall simplify your task. Bask in it's warmth.

Code:

#include <vector>
#include <fstream>
#include <string>

/* ... */

std::vector <std::string> v;

/* ... */

std::ifstream i("poem.txt");
/* ... */

// get a line from the file
char buf[256];

i.getline(buf,256,'\n');
v.push_back(std::string(buf));