Hi William,

You wrote to Dominique Curtis:

WM> DC> my book on C only talks about predefined character strings, ie:
WM> DC> static char *books[30] = {"moby dick",
"annie", etc}; But not on how
WM> DC> to read data into one.

WM>That's an array of pointers to constant strings. You can't read into it.

Not so :-(. There is no "const" in there...
That is an initialised array of strings of varying length that retains
it's value between calls to the function it's declared in. You _can_
write to them, but it's a dangerous occupation since they have the
length of the string they were initialised with and so vary in length.

George

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