What special consideration do we have when dynamically allocating strings, which we don’t have to worry about when dynamically allocating space for, e.g., an integer array?
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We can allocate the required memory using functions like malloc() or calloc() and then access the elements using array indexing. However, when dynamically allocating strings, we need to consider the following: Show more…
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