Store string into array in c

Question

As i know, i can create an array with item inside such as:

char *test1[3]= {\"arrtest\",\"ao\", \"123\"};

but how can i store my input into arr

Answer 1

Did not really understand what you need. But here is what I guessed.

char *a[5];//array of five pointers

for(i=0;i<5;i++)// iterate the number of pointer times in the array
{
char input[10];// a local array variable
a[i]=malloc(10*sizeof(char)); //allocate memory for each pointer in the array here
scanf("%s",input);//take the input from stdin
strcpy(a[i],input);//store the value in one of the pointer in the pointer array
}