The big problem that I am having is how to create the arrays (or arrays of pointers really) to dynamically assign memory at run time, to be able to collect the information from multiple selections ...

Pointers — you either love them, or you haven’t fully understood them yet. But before you storm off to the comment section now, pointers are indeed a polarizing subject and are both C&#… ...

Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...

All array subscription operations in C get decomposed to pointer arithmetic anyhow; and when dealing with either multi-dimensional arrays or arrays of structs, where you want to access an ...

Arrays are not pointers; pointers are not arrays. This is perhaps the most common misconception about C, and a “Guide to C Pointers” should not propagate it.