Passing multi-dimensional arrays in C

Question

I am currently trying to learn C and I have come to a problem that I\'ve been unable to solve.

Consider:

#include 
#include 

        

Answer 1

You need to pass the address of "array" into the function. That is, you need char ***. This is because you need to change the value of array, by allocating memory to it.

EDIT: Just to make it more complete, in the function declaration you need to have something like

void make(char ***array, int *array_size)

Then you need to call it using

make(&array, &size);

Inside the function make, allocate memory with

*array = malloc(ELEMENTS * sizeof(char *));

And change other places accordingly.

Also, as kauppi has pointed out, strdup will allocate memory for you, so you don't need to do malloc on each string.