How come '\0' doesnt show up in the debugger?

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Originally Posted by porter

What is len for if you are then doing a strlen?

I still haven't worked out why you are assigning to strarr when it was given to you as an argument?

Do you actually mean

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strarr[0]=malloc(strlen(line)+1);

then you should be doing

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strcpy(strarr[0],line);

I wasn't too sure what I was doing either. I was just trying to get it to work at the time. Anyhow, I thought about it and I think using strcpy() is the correct approach.

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