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simple c++ question (pointers)

im trying to take each word untill end of file and put it in 1 element of a vector...

i know that char *words[1000] are pointers, so, when i want to read in the words, i need to somehow create a new space for each new word, right now it is just overriding the previous word and so the words vector points to the same word... here is a simple code example...

Code:

int wordSze =0;

char *words[1000];



int main(){

        char input[101];

        cin >> setw(100) >> input;

        while(!cin.eof()){

                words[wordSize]=text;

                wordSize++;

                cin >> setw(100)>>input;

        }

        

        for(int i=0; i<wordSize; i++)

                cout <<words[i]<<endl;

        return 0;

}





so, this is what the output would look like



>countwords

hello, how are you (ctrl-d)

you

you

you

you

>

"i need to somehow create a new space for each new word,"

You pick up the new memory with the malloc function. You store the address of the memory provided by malloc into the array element.

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