Question

I have a struct in my main.h but when I try to allocate memory for the 3D array in the struct, I get the following compiler error.

    'text' has no member named 'list'

Now, I only get this for the 3D array the the other variables in the struct.

main.h

#define MAX_WORD 100

typedef struct textTag {
   char name[100];
   char  ***list;
   int words;
}text;

main.c

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

void createArray(FILE *file, text *checkTexts, int fileCount,  int size){
   int i, n, wordCount, sections, rest;
   FILE *textFile;
   text localText;
   char fileName[MAX_WORD + 30];

   readFileNames(file, checkTexts);

   for(i = 0; i < fileCount; i++){
      localText = checkTexts[i];

      strcpy(fileName, "./testFolder/");
      strcat(fileName, checkTexts[i].name);
      openFile(&textFile, fileName);

      checkTexts[i].words = countWords(textFile);

      sections = (wordCount / size);
      rest = wordCount % size;
      checkTexts[i].list = malloc(sections * sizeof(char **)); //Compile error here

      for(n = 0; n < sections; n++){
         checkTexts[i].list[n] = malloc(size * sizeof(char *)); //Compile error here
      }

      checkTexts[i].list[sections] = malloc(rest * sizeof(char*)); //Compile error here

      readFileContent(textFile,checkTexts[i].list, size); //Compile error here

   }

}

Answer 1

Like I said in the comment.

Fixed the problem

It was a stupid mistake be my self, where i had accidently opened the wrong main.h file, so I was editing a file for an other project, so the struct i was using did indeed not have en member list.

But thanks for trying to help me.