2d array, using calloc in C

Question

I\'m trying to create a 2D array of chars to storage lines of chars. For Example:

lines[0]=\"Hello\";
lines[1]=\"Your Back\";
lines[2]=\"Bye\";

Answer 1

No the code is not in a function.

You can't just put arbitrary statements outside of functions in C and C++. What you can do though is use a function to initialize the variable:

char** init_lines() {
    char** ln = /* ... */;
    // your allocations etc. here
    return ln;
}

char** lines = init_lines();