simple c++ question (pointers)

true_atlantis · 02-05-2004, 06:04 PM

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
>

jailbait · 02-05-2004, 06:34 PM

"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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