From: steven DOT watson AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: pointers? Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 13:07:37 +0000 Organization: NTL Internet News Service Lines: 22 Message-ID: <38451D99.2A3F59E0@dtn.ntl.com> References: <38428DE3 DOT 17179D7D AT dtn DOT ntl DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p58-harc2-kirklees2.tch.dtn.ntl.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: nclient3-gui.server.dtn.ntl.com 944080468 24781 194.168.246.28 (1 Dec 1999 20:34:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT net DOT ntl DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Dec 1999 20:34:28 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Damian Yerrick wrote: > Thank you for the information I would never have figured this out without help Thanks Steven watson > > > > but I have a question its something that I cannot figure out > > > > how do I get an array of pointers to an array of char? > > char *stringData[tooMany]; > > If you need it dynamically sized, try > char **stringData; > and when you malloc() or realloc(), use as the size > nStrings * sizeof(stringData[0]); > > Damian Yerrick