c splitting a char* into an char**

Question

I\'m reading in a line from a file (char by char, using fgetc()), where all fields(firstname, lastname, ...) are seperated by an ;. What I now want to do is create

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. Yes, you can treat it as a one dimensional array. Yes, the memory is contiguous.

But you probably want:

char ** fields = malloc(sizeof(char *) * numFields);

Then you can do:

// assuming `field` is a `char *`
fields[i++] = field;