Malloc compile error: a value of type “int” cannot be used to initialize an entity of type int (*)[30]

Question

I must have tried 20 ways of doing this by now. I really need help, no matter what I do i get a error similar to this one.

a value of type \"int\" cannot be          


        

Answer 1

2D array to store char *

char ***array;
int rows = 2, cols = 2, i, j;
array = malloc(sizeof(char **)*rows);
for (i = 0; i < rows; i++)
  array[i] = malloc(cols * sizeof(char *));

array[0][0] = "asd";
array[0][1] = "qwe";
array[1][0] = "stack";
array[1][1] = "overflow";

for(i=0;i