C Language, Yet another newbie problem.

Yet another newbie problem.

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SHLOIMES #1 / 3	Yet another newbie problem. I have a global variable "word" which is a pointer to a char* chosen at runtime I want to have another global pointer /char [] "guessed" which will be the same size as "word" but I need to be able to change individual characters in it. Is there an easy way to do this ?(I can't change the characters if its a pointer and a char [] needs a constant value for the array size) char words[] = {"one","two","three"}; char word /* char guessed; ... srand(time(NULL)); int x = rand(); word = words[x%(sizeof words / sizeof words[0])]; / Somehow get guessed to be same size as word but editable. Thanks Steve
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:00:00 GMT

bowma #2 / 3	Yet another newbie problem. Quote: > word = words[x%(sizeof words / sizeof words[0])]; > /* Somehow get guessed to be same size as word but editable. word char* junk = malloc(strlen(word)+1); if (junk) strcpy(junk, word); else printf("fresh out of memory\n"); . . . free(junk);
Tue, 10 Apr 2001 03:00:00 GMT

SHLOIMES #3 / 3	Yet another newbie problem. Thanks a lot. Exactly what I needed. Steve Quote: >> word = words[x%(sizeof words / sizeof words[0])]; >> /* Somehow get guessed to be same size as word but editable. >word >char* junk = malloc(strlen(word)+1); >if (junk) > strcpy(junk, word); >else > printf("fresh out of memory\n"); >. >. >. >free(junk);
Thu, 12 Apr 2001 02:00:00 GMT

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