Re: [Dev-C++] copying elements to an array of pointers...

[Abhijit S. <mu...@gm...>]

> got a question:
> i'd like to copy a char string to a string of pointers but i can't get the
> code working...and i can't see the result with cout... anyone who can help
> me??
> kind regards,
> senem

> #include <iostream.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <string.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
> #define max 5
> int main(){
>  char *array[max];

Here, you've just declared an array of pointers. You haven't actually
allocated memory, so the pointers are not valid. You need to new[] it, like
so.

    array[0] = new char[max];

and so on.

>  char string[max];
>  cout<<"enter string :";
>  cin.getline(string,max);
>  strncpy(array[0],string,sizeof(string)/sizeof(char));
> cout<<array[0];
>  return 0;
> }

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