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Listing 7 Implements strings as rows in a 2-d array of char

/* array7.c: Stores strings in 2-d char arrays */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

main()
{
   char array[][5] = {"now","is","the","time"};
   size_t n = sizeof array / sizeof array[0];
   int i;
   
   for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
      printf("array[%d] == \"%s\","
            "\tsize == %d,"
            "\tlength == %d\n",
            i,array[i],
            sizeof array[i],
            strlen(array[i]));
   return 0;
}

/* Output
array[0] == "now",  size == 5,  length == 3
array[1] == "is",   size == 5,  length == 2
array[2] == "the",  size == 5,  length == 3
array[3] == "time", size == 5,  length == 4
*/
/* End of File */