Question

I am working in C trying to tokenize an array and then store the tokens to a global array of strings. The catch is that i am trying to do this with pointers so I do not have to refrence the index of the array of strings. I know how big the array is supposed to be which is why it is easy to do it with the index, HOWEVER; i am trying to do this with just pointers. I don’t know if this is possible so correct me here. Here is the code I have tried to implement but not been successful..

    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>

            char *cPayload2[PARAMS];

    void ReadIn2(char *input)
    {
        //Initialize the pointer to the 
        char *PayloadPtr;
        //start the parse
        char *token = strtok(input, "#");
        //pointer to an array of strings(pointers to character arrays)
        PayloadPtr = &cPayload2[0];

        while(token != NULL)
        {

This is the part in question, can i change the index of my global array with a clause like this. It seems I cannot print out the payload array with this.

            *PayloadPtr = token;
            //increment the index that the ptr refrences
            PayloadPtr++;
            //tokenize again
            token = strtok(NULL, "#");
        }

    }



    int main(void)
    {

        char input[] = "jsiUjd3762BNK==#KOIDKKkdkdwos==";

        ReadIn2(input);

This printout is bunked for some reason

        printf("%s\n",cPayload2[0]);
        printf("%s\n",cPayload2[1]);

        return 0;
    }

Any tips would be greatly appriciated.

Answer 1

char *PayloadPtr;

should be

char **PayloadPtr;

apart from that, your code is alright.