I’m writing a program that receives a text input from the user, and saves it in an array of pointers, each word as a pointer (let say in char** words)
My question is: once I have it, how would I know the size of words?
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I’m writing a program that receives a text input from the user, and saves it in an array of pointers, each word as a pointer (let say in char** words)
My question is: once I have it, how would I know the size of words?
There’s no way to look at a C array and tell how many elements it contains, so you’ll need to keep track.
In fact, you likely need to keep track of 2 things: (1) how large the array you’ve created is (the maximum number of words you can handle), and (2) how many words you’ve actually seen so far.