From: "William D. Hayden" <wdh AT computek DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Stack with strings
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 1997 17:31:36 -0500
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Mark Burkley wrote:
> 
> "xIGOO" <jan-erik DOT henriksson AT mailbox DOT swipnet DOT se> wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I have a sligth problem, the thing is that I have been trying to create a
> >stack which handles strings. I have the code which I got from a book, but I
> >can't make it deal with strings.
> >
> >Could anyone please help me,  I will attach the source for the stack
> >dealing with single chars.
> >
> >thanx,
> >
> >// xIGOO
> 
> Your stack currently stores only single characters.  I think you want
> to store strings instead, is that right?
> 
> If you are willing to live with a pre-determined max. string length
> then you could use the following stack definition.
> 
> #define MAX_LEN 1000
> #define MAX_STRING 20;
> 
> typedef struct stack {
>         char s[MAX_LEN][MAX_STRING];
>         int  top;
> } stack;
> 
> or if you wouldn't to be more adventurous and do your own dynamic
> string allocation, you could just store pointers to strings, allocate
> space on push and free it on pop.
> 
> typedef struct stack {
>         char *s[MAX_LEN];
>         int  top;
> } stack;
> 
> Mark Burkley
> mark AT tecnomen DOT ie
> (to reply remove the $'s)


Try the source code available at:

http://www.snippets.org/

There is a stack routine available on the site that handles void types. 
This makes it generic, and will handle anything you want.

-- 

William D. Hayden