[C] Creating a 2D array of character arrays

[Porl123]

I'm trying to make a hang man game, which is fairly simple enough to make but I've run into a problem. The has the ability to select from the categories film and music at the moment. I'm trying to store the phrases in an array like this:

 

char phrases[0][0][10] = "Phrase1";

 

Although I know this syntax is wrong. The first [0] is the categories; 0 being films and 1 being music. The second is which phrase it's on and the third assigns 10 characters for the phrase. The error I receive from this 'the array must have at least one element', which I can understand. Although I'm not sure of how this statement is put. If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. Thanks

[Zyx]

Is this array statically or dynamically allocated? Multidimensional, contignuous arrays are in fact one-dimensional arrays with a more complex index calculation and this is how I always implement them:

 

int *array = (int*) malloc(sizeof(int) * size_x * size_y);
array[x + y * size_y] = 13;

 

You can write a macro to wrap it and use more easily. String types are also pretty simple:

 

// allocate array memory
char **array = (char**) malloc(sizeof(char*) * size_x * size_y);
// allocate string memory
array[x + y * size_y] = (char*) malloc(sizeof(char) * 30);

// write something to the string
array[x + y * size_y][2] = 'z';

 

It will allocate an array of pointers to string arrays.