Say I wanted to have a 2d array in C

First array contains a bunch of random numbers that have to point to specific strings based off of what number they are like:

32 -> taco
21-> fish
99-> cheese
ect..

How would I go about doing this?

Like:

char **stringset;

Not sure how to exactly initialize the 2d array.

The numbers are quite spread out, they jump from like 32 to 60 then to 72

Would I have to make a pointer pointing to an int pointing to a char array?

This post was edited by lopelurag on Feb 27 2013 10:38am

a 2d array is an array of arrays. for example, here's a 3x3 array of integers:



which conceptually looks like this:


in C, a 2d array would be implemented as an array of pointers (which, in turn, each point to array)

This post was edited by irimi on Feb 27 2013 01:04pm

Ok what I'm having problem with atm is implicit function calls. Keep getting an error on compilation saying I have implicit function calls.

Example of problem...



It'll say that multiply number is declared implicitly?

This post was edited by lopelurag on Feb 27 2013 03:30pm

missing an underscore

also missing function prototypes

Yeah those errors have nothing to do with 2d arrays at all

What you're looking for is an associative array and there are no default implementations of those in C. In C++, you have std::map and std::unordered_map, in C you have to write one on your own.

this.

a fairly easy way to do this is by using structs imo



another way to do this would to have two arrays

one an array of integers and another array of characters then line up the elements so that element n in the intereger array relates to element n in the character array.