Assigning memory to double pointer?

Question

I am having trouble understanding how to assign memory to a double pointer. I want to read an array of strings and store it.

    char **ptr;
    fp = fopen(\         


        

Answer 1

 char **ptr;
    fp = fopen("file.txt","r");
    ptr = (char**)malloc(sizeof(char*)*50);
    for(int i=0; i<50; i++)
    {
       ptr[i] = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*50);
       fgets(ptr[i],50,fp);
    }

fclose(fp);

may be your typo mistake but your loop should be of 50 instead of 20 if you are looking for 50 x 50 matrix. Also after allocation of memory mentioned above you can access the buffer as ptr[i][j] i.e in the 2D format.