Initialize 2-D array of unknown size

Question

I have a 2-D array of characters e.g. char aList[numStrings][maxLength]. ideally, during program execution I want to be able to modify the contents of aList i.

Answer 1

You can dynamically allocate the array:

char **aList;
int i;

aList = malloc(sizeof(char *) * numStrings);

for (i = 0; i < numStrings; i++)
{
    aList[i] = malloc(maxLength);
}

If, by any chance, you can use C++ instead of C, you could always use a C++ vector:

std::vector > aList;