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Dynamic string arrays
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
int main (void) {
char **strarray = NULL;
int i = 0, strcount = 0;
char line[1024];
while((fgets(line, 1024, stdin)) != NULL) {
strarray = (char **)realloc(strarray, (strcount + 1) * sizeof(char *));
strarray[strcount++] = strdup(line);
}
/* print the array of strings */
for(i = 0; i < strcount; i++)
printf("strarray[%d] == %s", i, strarray[i]);
/*
// free the string array
// Note: You must delete each individual string
// before you delete the array of pointers
*/
for(i = 0; i < strcount; i++)
free(strarray[i]);
free(strarray);
return 0;
}
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