Issue

Let's say I have an empty array that will be filled with strings, how do I then append a string to it when I want to?

Here is what I kind of have so far

string people[20] = {};

string name = "james";

strcpy(people[0], name);

Solution

Taking into account your code snippet

string people[20] = {};

string name = "james";

strcpy(people[0], name);

it seems that the type string is defined like

typedef char * string;

So this declaration

string people[20] = {};

declares an array of elements of the type char *.

You may not use as an initializer empty braces. You need to write at least like

string people[20] = { NULL };

So to add an element to the array you should write

people[0] = name;

Or without using an intermediate variable

people[0] = "james";

Another approach is to allocate a memory dynamically for an element of the array and copy in the memory a string. For example

people[0] = malloc( strlen( name ) + 1 );
strcpy( people[0], name );

Answered By - Vlad from Moscow

Answer Checked By - Terry (PHPFixing Volunteer)