http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:31:26 GMT DZone Snippets: multidimensional code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4034 Reading a multidimensional C char array (aka C String array) containing char 0 and terminated with literal zero without knowing length. <br /> <br /><code> <br />char *a[] = { "11", "23", "", "44", "11", "", "16", "36", "", "51", "71", "", "46", "26", "", "14", "68", 0}; <br />int sentinel = 0; <br />int i = 0; <br />while ( *(a + i++) != sentinel ) { /* counting away */ } <br />int aLength = i; // 18, length <br />int aUbound = i - 1; // 17, index of last element <br />int aMaxIdx = i - 2; // 16, index of last element where a[i] doesn't cause seg fault <br />// You now have the lengths so read like normal <br /></code> Thu, 17 May 2007 00:56:20 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4034 jokeyxero (xero)