Hi,

I have a problem and I am very close to going crazy. If someone could help me, I would be appreciate...


struct command_line
{
char *command_name;
char **args;
};

main ()
{

struct command_line *command;
command=(struct command_line *)malloc(sizeof (struct command_line);

char real_command_line[500];
...
...
i=0,j=0, k=0;

command->args=malloc((n+1) * sizeof(char *));

//assume real_command_line has "please be done" in it. n=3, and the allocation for args will be 4.
//the below parts takes "please", copies it in a string named buffer, equals buffer to command->args[k], then takes "be" and again the same and "done" and the same operations are done. but command->args[k] has a null value everytime and I can't solve it!

while(real_command_line[i]!='\0')
{
if(real_command_line[i]==' ' || real_command_line[i]=='\0' )
{
buffer[j]='\0'; j=0;
command->args[k]=buffer;
i++; printf("buffer %s\n", command->args[k] );
k++;
}

buffer[j]=real_command_line[i];
i++, j++;

if(real_command_line[i]=='\0')
{
buffer[j]='\0'; j=0;
command->args[k]=buffer;
printf("buffer %s\n", command->args[k]);
k++;
}
}
command->args[k]=0;

printf results are ok.

but after this step, when I try to printf command->args[0],
it gives the last string which is "done". Actually all command->args[0], command->args[1], command->args[2] is getting equal to "done". I don't know why and how can I solve this...

Well, I have done it!

If someone is curious how ( ), I used an extra pointer array like char **array;
and allocated it's columns and rows and used it instead of the array buffer. I think somehow using a single array like buffer[250] overwrites all the rows of the **args pointer array. I don't know why, but that's the case.