C strcpy = Unhandled exception: Access violation writing location 0x00000000

Question

I have a problem with strcpy function. Using C. Main point of this simple code (below) is copying a string from a array to the array of pointers.

char string[20]         


        

Answer 1

You need to initialize array_of_pointers :

array_of_pointers[0] = malloc(strlen(string)+1);

Or best:

array_of_pointers[0] = strdup(string);