How to store character by character in an array?

Array problem....

Dear all,

Does anyone know how to stor character by character into a array?
That mean, in beginning the contain inside array is empty, when a user keying a number/alphabet, i need to stor the number/alphabet into the array.
Here is my program,but when i complie,it give me some warning...like this <assign far pointer to near pointer,bank value ignored>, why?


unsigned char *phonebook[20];
unsigned int phone_size=0;

void main()
{....
....
phonebook[phone_size]= "9"; //assume user key in number 9
phone_size++;
....
....
display();

}

void display(void)
{ int i;
for(i=0;i<10;i++)
{
phonebook;
}
}


Does anyone can point out my problem,pls??thanks !!

Re: Array problem....

do u really need pointers for that? y not use "char input []" ?
u can try dynamic memory if u need pointers

Array problem....

maybe you should change

phonebook[phone_size]= "9"

phonebook[phone_size]= '9'

So that it is assigned a character and not a string.

Constant strings are often collected into a single location and this might require a far pointer.

Array problem....

Please post a complete program. That fragment doesn't compile and doesn't show us what you are trying to do.

If this is suppose to be a C program,

.... is a syntax error.

phonebook has no effect, so display() does nothing.

You didn't declare display() before calling it.

main() returns int, not void. If you got that from a Schildt book, throw it out!

Lots of good C programming advice here:
https://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

Re: Array problem....

hi,
i hope this helps:


cheers!

Re: Array problem....

Your declaration 'char *phonebook[20];' declares an array of 20 pointers to char's. This is commonly called a ragged array.
To populate the array, you need a buffer and something like 'gets(buffer)' to get the input. 'gets()' reads a string up to, but not includung the return.You then need to allocate memory for the string and copy it to your array.
This is not so good, how big should you make the buffer? Some maliscious soul will try to overflow it, and get into your phonebook. Then he can phone up that cute chick with the nice ass that you had your eyes on!

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <conio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char *phonebook[20];
char buffer[40];

gets(buffer);
phonebook[0] = (char *) malloc(strlen(buffer)+1);
sprintf(phonebook[0], buffer);
printf(phonebook[0]);
getch();
return 0;
}

Re: Array problem....