I am trying to store a given input number of sets of strings in a 3D character array, but couldn't. Is it even possible using char arrays or should i use any other concept like data structures......?
int main()
{
int i,j,T,N[10];
char word[10][10][10];
scanf("%d",&T);/* No of test cases*/
for(i=0;i<T;i++)
{
scanf("%d",&N[i]); /*No of strings*/
for(j=0;j<N[i];j++)
scanf("%s",word[i][j]); /* reading the strings*/
}
return 0;
First: a "3D character array" is better thought of as a "2D string matrix" in this case.
And yes, of course it's very possible.
There are some weaknesses with your code that might trip it up, hard to say since you don't show a full test case with the input data you provide.
scanf() can fail, in which case you cannot rely on the variables having valuesscanf() with %s will stop on the first whitespace character, which might cause your scanning code to become very confusedA better solution would be to check that the scanning succeeded, and make each string be on a line on its own, and read full lines using fgets() into an appropriately-sized buffer, then perhaps copy the part you want to keep into place in the matrix.
