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I have to read input from the keyboard and save it as a string (but in C strings are acctually character arrays or something?) that I am going to manipulate later. That wouldn`t be a problem except there must be no artifical limit to the string lenght. It has to fit into the array size no matter if it is a million letters long so I can`t just make room for it with a char word[100]; declaration like I would usssually.

So how do I solve this and make the array be the size of whatever the input lenght is? I`m guessing it has to be something with malloc function, but I have no idea how exactly. Neither logic nor syntax wise.
Apr 8 '07 #1
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weaknessforcats
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Everything has a limit and this case is not different.

Just set a minimum length. Get that many characters from the keyboard. Allocate memory for those characters and copy from your buffer to your allocation. If you did not encounter the enter key, then accept the minimum legnth characters again. Attach the second fetch to the first (good place ofr a function here). Keep fetching until you have gotten all the characters.
Apr 8 '07 #2
Extremist
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Ok, just say:

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  1. char *word[100];
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This means that you will have an array of 100 character arrays with no specific defined size of each element.
Apr 9 '07 #3

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