um.... im doing a program in DOS.. I know...DOS IS DEAD!! but o well, im programming direct-x most of the time, but a friend of mine wants a small program, that i dont know how to do as a windows program... anywasy to the problem I want to set up an 2 d array that holds sentances and nnumbers.. for exsample lets say i want the adress 1 in the first array to equal cows go moo and in option[1][1] i want the value "hey whats up" and in option[1] [2] i want the value "124" ?? how do i make the array to accept multiple words?? thanx Ryan Lahay

make an array of arrays of strings (really an array of arrays of arrays of char)
like this:

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char ***option;
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..hmmm.. dont exactly no what u mean.. this is how i need it

for (int index = 1; index < number_of_options; index++)
{
cout << "Please enter option" << index <<''\n'';
cin.get (???????);
}

cout << options[2];

i want it to be a 50 chracter arrra... so it can accept 50 characters.. (duh) but i want it so it can be written easily in a loop, for exsample options[1] can have heave a nice day and options[2] can read goodbye ..things like that

Well a 50 character array would actually only hold 49 characters, the last one needs to be NULL (\0) .

Try this:

    #include <stdio.h>#include <conio.h>#include <string.h>//...#define SOMENUMBER 10char option[SOMENUMBER][51];//...// Or do this dynamicly like this:#define SOMENUMBER 10char **option = new char*[SOMENUMBER]// Then use this to read in a string to option[0], or something like that:char *getString(void) {  char *data = new char[0];  strcpy(data,"");  char *buff;  char chunk[11] = "";  unsigned int put = 0;  int ch = 0;  bool cont = true;  for(unsigned int a=1; cont; a++) {    ch=getch();    if(ch==13) {      cont = false;    }    chunk[put] = (unsigned int) ch;    printf("%c",chunk[put]);    put++;    if(put>=10 || cont) {      unsigned int len = a+strlen(chunk);      buff = new char[len];      sprintf(buff,"%s",data);      delete [] data;      len += strlen(chunk);      data = new char[len];      sprintf(data,"%s%s",buff,chunk);      strcpy(chunk,"");      delete [] buff;      put = 0;    }  }  return data;}// That can be used like this:option[0] = getString();    

I''m kind of sleepy, please excuse errors...


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At least I don't know COBOL...
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It always butchers my code!

Null and Void
At least I don't know COBOL...
http://www.crosswinds.net/~druidgames/