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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
Subject: Re: Novice question about malloc and pointers
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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 20:32:53 GMT
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trotter@ENUXHA.EAS.ASU.EDU (Russell T. Trotter) writes:

>I am trying to get an array of strings, therefore I am using the
>following declaration:  char *str[MAX] where MAX is an arbitrary 
>constant.  My question is how do I allocate the memory for each 
>character position? Do all the characters strings for each element
>in the array need to be allocated contiguously?  The problem involves
>reading in lines of input.  Each line would be stored as a string and 
>the number of lines make up the number of elements in the array.
>Any information would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.

	Here's how I did something similar:  use a temporary variable
such as char buf[200] for getting each line of input, then do a
str[i] = (char  *) malloc(strlen(buf) +1)
to copy each line into str.

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John Gordon
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