Re: Inline initialization of a struct containing a string array

[Eric Sosman]

Antti Karanta wrote:
>                  Hi!
>
>   Is it possible to inline initialize a struct whose one member is a string
> array of arbitrary length (terminated w/ a NULL ptr)? What I mean is 
> something like this:
>
>
> typedef struct {
>   char** x ;
>   int y ;
> } Foo ;
>
> static const Foo myfoos[] = {
>     { { "hello", "world", NULL }, 12 },
>     { NULL, 0 }
> } ;

    Define the arrays first, give them names, and use the
names when you initialize the structs.

        static const char* fooArray0[] = {
            "hello", "world", NULL };
        static const char* fooArray1[] = {
            "there", "is", "no", "Cabal", NULL };
        static const Foo myfoos[] = {
            { fooArray0, 12 },
            { fooArray1, 42 },
            { NULL, 0 } };

It's not as slick as if you could somehow make the arrays
anonymous, but it works.

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