Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:19:45 +0530 (IST) From: Prashant TR X-Sender: tr AT vsnl DOT net DOT in To: Johan Henriksson cc: DJGPP mailinglist Subject: Re: Beginner question... In-Reply-To: <00db01bfc03b$60e09e40$0500007b@brk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 17 May 2000, Johan Henriksson wrote: > Can I expect a variable to initialize to 0 if none is set? No. It contains garbage values. > I usually just set it to something and don't bother too much but setting a strings[MAXX][MAXY]=zzz; > is something I don't really know how to do. How can I make zzz vary? Oh well, I'll use a for()-loop > if zzz can't. Sorry, I didn't understand this. But maybe this is what you want: char string[][80] = { "Str 1", "Str 2", "Str 3", "Str 4" }; Prashant