How to declare an array with an arbitrary size

Question

Ok, this is a C programming homework question. But I\'m truly stuck.

I ask the user to input words, and then I insert the input into an array, but I can\'t have any

Answer 1

Yes, you want malloc. Checkout this tut.

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial/dynamic_memory_allocation.html

This site is good in general for learning.

Here is an example of using realloc, it is basically exactly what you are asking to do.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstdlib/realloc/