Thread: strcmp

I'm trying to copy some strings into a char* array, I've been trying to use strcpy, only when I do, the program crashes. The array is initialized, within a class, as:

char* Commands[MAXNUMBER]
//maxnumber is defined earlier to have a value of 10

Then I am trying to intitalize the array within the constructor funcion as follows:

strcpy(Commands[0], "status");
strcpy(Commands[1], "load");
strcpy(Commands[2], "coffee");
strcpy(Commands[3], "chocolate");
strcpy(Commands[4], "soup");
strcpy(Commands[5], "quarter");
strcpy(Commands[6], "dime");
strcpy(Commands[7], "nickel");

My first instinct told me to make the array 2 dimensional, but that did not work. How can I scan the strings into the array without having the program crash when I get to this part of the code?

One way of declaring the array is:

char Commands[MAXNUMBER][20];

Or if you want to fill the array when it is declared, instead of using strcpy, then you can declare the array like this:

char* Commands[MAXNUMBER] = {
"status","load","coffee","chocolate","soup","quart er","dime","nickel"};