Re: [Dev-C++] Sentences in a array

For the second alternative, it is possible to do (C code):
  array[1] = malloc(strlen(sentence)+1);
  if (array[1] != NULL) strcpy(array[1],sentence);
or
  array[1] = "sentence";

note that no allocation is needed to just assign a pointer.

However, the above two alternatives may not be combined into:
  array[1] = malloc(strlen(sentence)+1);
  array[1] = "sentence";
since the second assign will loose the reference to the memory previously
allocated.

/Per W

On Sat, 30 Apr 2005, David McKen wrote:

> Yes there are a couple ways to do this.
>
> string array[5];
> char * array[5];
> char array[5] [MAX_STRING_LEN];
>
> in the first and last method you can just go ahead and use the space
> without a need to allocate any memory. The third way is actually quite
> wasteful unless you know exactly how long the strings are. For the
> second you will have to do something like:
>
> array[1] = new char[length of sentence + 1];
> array[1] = "sentence";
>
> //Once you are done with the sentence
> delete [] array[1];
>
> That leaves the first method which requires that you be using C++ and
> not C, the latter 2 methods work in C as well.
>
> Hope this helps
> David McKen
>
> Alexsandro Meireles wrote:
>
> > Hi, dev-c++ users!
> >
> > Do you know if it is possible to put sentences in an array in the
> > following way?
> >
> > array[0] = "sentence 1";
> > array[1] = "sentence 2"
> > and so on...
> >
> > Any suggestion for this matter, i.e., to put sentences in a array?
> >
> > Tks in advance!!!
> > --
> > Alexsandro Meireles