Question

Say we have,

typedef struct{
    char* ename;
    char** pname;
}Ext;

Ext ext[5];

What I am trying to do is to populate the data as following:

ext[0].ename="XXXX";
ext[0].pname={"A", "B", "C"};  // and so on for the rest of the array

— I am pretty sure this is not the right way of doing this because I am getting errors. Please let me know the correct way to do this. Thanks.

Answer 1

The first assignment is correct.

The second one is not. You need to dynamically allocate the array:

ext[0].pname = malloc( sizeof(char*) * 5 );
ext[0].pname[0] = "A";
ext[0].pname[1] = "B";
//and so on
//you can use a loop for this