bug or error in the program

[Alexandre Oliva]

Jinpeng Xie <xie@nu.cs.fsu.edu> writes:

> I use "array = new char *();" to allocate memory first,
> for each line, I use "array[i] = new char[length]" to allocate memory.

This just allocates space for 1 pointer to char, which is not enough
what you want.  You need `new char*[N]', where `N' is some upper bound 
to the number of pointers to char you'll want to store there.

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Alexandre Oliva
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