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From: snow@china.uu.net (John Snow)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How do you do this???
Message-ID: <167@salt.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 20:19:38 GMT
Reply-To: snow@salt.UUCP (John Snow)
Organization: MDCCIS, Englewood, CO
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I am writing a program where I need to dynamically allocate memory for
an array of strings (ie list[x][10]), but I can't seem to please the
compiler.  I want to be able to use it in the form:

for (x = 0; x < n; x++)
	strcpy (list[x], source[x]);

As a first shot I tried:

typedef ARRAY[][10];
...
{
ARRAY list;  /* tried both 'list' and '*list' */

	list = calloc (5, 10);
...
}

The compiler was not at all impressed with that.  After trying several
things I finally found one that at least compiles and runs, even
though the compiler does gripe about it.  That is:

{
char (*list)[10];

	list = calloc (5, 10);
...
}

Even thought this *seems* to work, I don't have a warm-fuzzy because
of the compiler warning.  Could somebody tell me how to do this in a
clean way?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
		John
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