Question

I am having some trouble storing some char pointers in my array

The method should take a char* array and and int pointer which is the size of the array. Then I loop and ask the user to enter the names. Then I want to print them; however it seems like there’s nothing in my array.

Note I cannot use array notation for this assignment, I must use pointer notation to access the elements of the array.

void sort_name(char* name[], int* items)
{
  //store the names
    cout << "In function items is " << *items << endl;

    for(int i=0; i<*items; i++)
    {
        string str;
        cout << "Enter name #" << (i+1) << ": ";
        getline(cin, str);

        char* current = new char[str.size() + 1];
        *(name + i) = current;
    }

    for(int i=0; i<*items; i++)
    {
        cout << *(name + i) << endl;
    }



}

Answer 1

    char* current = new char[str.size() + 1];
    *(name + i) = current;

You are correctly allocating new memory for each of the array elements, but you never assign any value to them. Since this is homework, I won’t say more.