BL> names: array[0..128] of string[12];

 PE> char names[129][13]; ???

 BL> I did that, but it was a total shambles to use.

 PE> For example? BFN. Paul.

  I read a pointer (line) out of files.txt and then I had to copy it
to the array so I had it stored somewhere real in memory...

strtok(line, " ");               //first space is end of name
line[13] = '\0';                 //make sure it doesn't overflow  
strcpy(names[x][0], line);       //  ?? didn't work ??

  What did I do wrong? The only alternative was to use a loop to copy
the first 12 characters from line into the array, and that was the
shambles of which I spoke.

  So I made names[] an array of pointers and allocated memory using
malloc().

Regards,
Bob
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