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From: jrb@petro.UUCP (Jon Boede)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C arrays of strings
Message-ID: <472@petro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 11:33:36 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 11:33:36 1987
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Keywords: C
Summary: An array of 12 pointers to chars

I'm probably one of about 50 zillion people who are going to respond to this,
but I rolled my 20-sided die and it came up 6 ;-)

In article <3157@rosevax.Rosemount.COM> richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht) writes:
>Could someone explain the following declaration in english and
>give an example of how to use it? I believe I can use this declaration
>but cannot explain how is works. What I'm after is simply an array of
>character strings.
>
>  char *str[12];

"Str is an array of twelve pointers to characters, effectively an array of
a dozen strings."

You can use str as a "char *str" but with an index.  For example, you could
initialize it with the months of the year...

	int the_month;
	static char *str[12] = { "January", "February", ... };

	printf("It's the month of %s\n",str[the_month]);

Jon
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