Question

I am having problems with array pointers. I’ve looked through Google and my attempts are futile so far.

What I would like to do is, I have a char name[256]. I will be 10 of those.
Hence, I would need to keep track of each of them by pointers.

Trying to create a pointer to them.

int main()
{
    char superman[256] = "superman";
    char batman[256] = "batman";
    char catman[256] = "catman";
    char *names[10];
    names[0] = superman;
    names[1] = batman;
    system("pause");
    return 0;
}

How do I actually traverse an array of pointers?

Answer 1

why not use strings and a Vector of strings to store the names?
smpl:

#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <Vector>

//using namespace std;

int main(void) {
    std::string superman = "superman";
    std::string batman = "batman";
    std::vector<std::string> names;
    names.push_back(superman);
    names.push_back(batman);
    for (unsigned int i = 0; i < names.size(); ++i) {
        std::cout << names[i] << std::endl;
    }
    char c; std::cin >> c;
}