Character Arrays

[JennyM]

Hi,
I need to have an array so as to look like the following:

ArrayElement[1] = "First ELement";
ArrayElement[2] = "Second Element";

etc...

How do I declare this?

ie Is it
char* ArrayElement[3];

Or how is it declared?

Thanks in advance,
Jenny

[Alexey B]

To declare an array of strings, allocate the space for the largest string:

char ArrayElement[3][15];

strcpy(ArrayElement[0], "First ELement");
strcpy(ArrayElement[1], "Second Element"); // 14 chars + '\0'
strcpy(ArrayElement[2], "Last Element");

[kuphryn]

What are you trying to do?

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char *pArray = new char[SIZE];
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Is that what you want to do?

Kuphryn

[JennyM]

Hi Guys!

Thanks for the answers

Alexey, It was exactly what I needed, Thanks!

[cup]

You could also use

const char* pArray[] =
{
    "First Element",
    "Second Element",
    "Third Element"
};

Then there is no need to figure out how many you have or the size of the largest string.

[jfaust]

Just because it should be said:

An array of std::string would be better.

A std::vector of std::string would be even better.

Jeff

[Graham]

Well said, that man!