Reading and Writing Strings

Hi, i want to read some number of strings(say 4 names) , and write them when i wanted later in the program. I tried by the following code. but it did'nt worked out. i'm getting the output of the last name. Please go through the code.

Code:

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#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
        char name[6],*p[3];  //declaring names and pointer to hold those names.
       
        for(int i=0; i<=2; i++)
        {
                for(int j=0; j<=5;j++)
                {
                        cin>>name[j];  //used to get names
                }

                p[i]=name;
                               
        }

        for(int i=0; i<=2; i++)
        {
                cout<<p[i]<<"\n";
        }

        return 0;
  }

Input:
--------
God
Is
Good

Output:(i want to get)
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God
Is
Good

Output: (i'm getting)
---------
Good
Good
Good

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Please help me on this. Plzzz tell me where i'm doing the mistake. Is that logic totally wrong?? If that logic is completely wrong plzzz give me the correct solution.
Thanks .

Because you're not storing strings, but chars.

Code:

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char name[3][6];
cin >> name[i];
p[i] = name[i];

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You can eliminate the 'j' loop.

Thanks Salem, i tried that 2-D arrays , got the desired output.
But can you tell me how can i get the same kind of output without using 2-D arrays. I wann to do it by using pointers. Plzzzzzzz help me.

Thanks again.

you problem is your re-using the name array each time, so p[0] points to name, p[1] points to name and p[2] points to name.

Code:

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p[i]=name;

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Pointers store addresses, so in that line you are assigning the address of name to p[i]. Does the address of name ever change? No. What's at the address of name changes when you read something into name, but name's address doesn't change.

Hi 7stud, thank you very much. Its damn clear now. thank you very much. Thank you everybody who replied.