String Array in C

[Bman212121]

Gotta love homework. I need to get working on a program to do inventory. It is going to read in the info from the file into a few vectors (requirement), and allow you to search, and do a few other things with it. I'm writing it in C++, so it won't be as bad as what your doing, but C++ is kind of a pita IMO to do a lot of things I've done in VB .net. I guess I got too used to just creating a form, and programming buttons and textboxes to do their thing. Since this is beginner C++ were doing everything text based.

[Tuork]

Originally Posted by Imbroglio

basically you need to look at testtube's response

you need to memory allocate the size of the string you attempting to store, and be sure to release that memory after you are finished using it.

Aight.

Thanks.

[Subtestube]

Originally Posted by Tuork

Aight.

Thanks.

If you've got any questions about memory allocation etc, feel free to ask, and I'll try to answer as best I can. I actually work predominantly in C++ these days, and as anyone who's migrated from C to C++ can tell you, avoiding direct malloc/realloc/calloc/etc...ing memory is probably one of the nicest things about the STL. Nevertheless, I've got a pretty good understanding of what's going on .

I will be away from my PC for most of today (it's Sunday and I'm currently on leave!), so if you don't get a really prompt reply from me, it's probably because I'm not actually online, rather than that I don't want to help.

[ViN86]

Originally Posted by Tuork

Aight.

Thanks.

yea you can get away with not inputting a size in most windows developer programs, but if youre coding from a text file in C, you need to declare the size of the array.

also, make sure you dont accidentally try to access an element outside the array, that will give you a nice crash (i speak from experience lol)

i wrote a program that plays a game of battleship and i wrote it in C. in the program, i deal with two dimensional arrays constantly throughout the file. if you want i can send you file. its nicely commented (i was graded on it) so it might help quite a bit. send me a pm if you want it, and ill email it to you

[Tuork]

Thank you all for all your input. you have been more than helpful.

Due to personal reasons (which I will comment on in the following days) I haven't had tiem to work on this. However, all I need to do now is add som fork()'s and I'm basically set. (All part of the assingment)