#include #include #include #include #include /* todo change intarray into str array make push array malloc for new str make input strings instead of int (should use fgets?) */ struct StringArray{ char **data; size_t length; size_t capacity; }; void print_SA(struct StringArray *in_str) { for (size_t i = 0; i < in_str->length; i++) { printf("word:%zu = %s\n", i, in_str->data[i]); } } struct StringArray *SA_create(size_t in_capacity) { struct StringArray *mystr = malloc(sizeof(struct StringArray)); //allocate memory for struct mystr->data = malloc(sizeof(char*) * in_capacity); //make sure the pointer in the struct points to the array mystr->length = 0; //forgot to actually assign a value to the struct mystr->capacity = in_capacity; if (mystr->data == NULL) { exit(1); } return mystr; } int get_string_len(char *in_string){ int length = 0; char currchar; do { currchar = in_string[length]; length++; } while (currchar != '\0'); printf("length of word: %d\n", length); //for some reason length is always 2 more than expected, so 1 more than necessary? apparently because of \n, not sure how to filter that. return length; } /* push value to struct, also handle realloc */ void SA_push(char *in_string, struct StringArray *in_str){ if (in_str->length == in_str->capacity) { //check if already full in_str->capacity*=2; //if so we should double printf("array capacity is now:%zu\n", in_str->capacity); char **temp; //create a temporary pointer temp = realloc(in_str->data, sizeof(char*)*in_str->capacity); //realloc the data into a new bucket if(temp == NULL){exit(0);}; //check if actually valid in_str->data = temp; //if valid, make sure the pointer in the struct points to the realloced block } char *newword = malloc(sizeof(char) * get_string_len(in_string)); //allocate memory for new string, apparantly my function already includes the length of null term strcpy(newword, in_string); //copy word into memory in_str->data[in_str->length] = newword; printf("word:%zu = %s\n", in_str->length, in_str->data[in_str->length]); in_str->length++; //didn't read the flow when transferring and accidentally put this in the if block printf("array length is now:%zu\n", in_str->length); //also had an off-by-one error because I increased length before doing anything } void SA_free(struct StringArray *inp_str) { for (size_t i = 0; i < inp_str->length; i++) { //for each pointer in array free(inp_str->data[i]); //free at pointer } free(inp_str->data); //free pointer to pointers free(inp_str); //free the struct } int main() { srand(time(NULL)); printf("input words:\n"); struct StringArray *mystringarraystr = SA_create(2); char input[50]; do{ fgets(input, sizeof(input), stdin); //get input from stdin of size input[] and put it in input SA_push(input, mystringarraystr); //push the value of input into mystr } while (*input != '-'); print_SA(mystringarraystr); SA_free(mystringarraystr); return 0; }