Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re:  C
Message-ID: <1989Feb28.170504.17123@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1256@dukeac.UUCP> <9743@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9501@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 89 17:05:04 GMT

In article <9501@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> yphotons@athena.mit.edu (Sun Warrior) writes:
>I would like to know how to set an array (float) to a certain size...
>... I would first like to be able to type in the size and
>then set the array...

You can't.  With certain (unhelpful) exceptions, the dimensions of C arrays
must be constants.  You can get much the same effect using malloc() and
pointers, although it is more complicated.
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