Question

Is there anyway in C we could create an array dynamically??? Like when the user gives the input as 5, then we need to have an array of length 5 ...???? any suggestion mates???

Answer 1

malloc

Answer 2

if we could Use malloc, then we would loose the contiguous memory allocation of the array????? wont we?

Answer 3

wrong, malloc gives you a contiguous block of memory of the specified size

Answer 4

can U pls help with the coding part???

Answer 5

Example:
Allocate a character buffer of 512 characters.
char* Buffer = malloc ( 512 );

Answer 6

Sorry forgot the cast.
char* Buffer = (char*) malloc ( 512 );

Answer 7

cool :) :) :) got it :) thanks a lot :)

Answer 8

malloc

Answer 9

Also don't forget to free() it after using malloc() ;)

Answer 10

sure sure :) :)