From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Simple C question (many should know this)
Date:	Fri, 16 May 1997 09:27:04 -0700
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Gautam N. Lad wrote:

> My Ship array holds numbers, which are 40x25, another words, 1000
> numbers.
> I can write up the numbers one by one, but since I already have the
> numbers in
> separate files, I just want to combine it as one.
> I have 24 files with the numbers.  Get it now!?!

What you're trying to do is so foreign to C that the previous poster
didn't even understand what you were asking, I suspect.

As I said in a previous post, you're trying to assign the elements of the
two-dimensional array a row at a time (what you're calling a "file," which
has a different meaning in C), and this is not legal.  The only time, in
fact, the curly-brace assignment is legal is at initialization -- i.e., on
the same statement where you declare the array.  And in that case, you
must initialize the _entire_ array, not just a row.

> I never bothered to touch up on 2D arrays (of anything other than
> chars).  I had
> the following in mind:
> 
> BYTE Ship[24][1000] = {
> {0,0,0,...},
> {0,0,0,...},
> {0,0,0,...}.....
> {0,0,0,...}};
> 
> But I didn't try.  I now think this is it.

This will work.

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