C Char pointers

Question

Let us say we have a array of pointers:

char *ptr[30];

Now this works fine, and doesn\'t seems to do anything unexpected! I can input names easi

Answer 1

If you use what is in your example, you just owerwrite other locations what come after your ptr array. Most compilers should actually give at least a warning. Your program would crash on most systems, you were just very lucky.