Removing an element from 2D char array in C

Asked Jun 03 '21 at 17:41

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I have a 2D char array and I want to change all the occurrences of a particular element. For an example, I want to change all occurrences of "ant" to "dummy" without using structs. Input {"hello", "ant", "bird", "ant", "ant"} Output {"hello", "dummy", "bird", "dummy", "dummy"}

I want to implement this in C language and my code is shown below.line is the 2D array with words.

 for(int m = 0; m< tot; m++){
                if (!strcmp(line[m],"ant")){
                        printf("hit\n");
                        line[m]="dummy";
                    }
}

I am getting an error assignment to expression with array type.

edited Jun 03 '21 at 17:47

asked Jun 03 '21 at 17:41

python_coder_

You should use [`strcpy()`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strcpy.3.html) for copying strings. – MikeCAT Jun 03 '21 at 17:45
The code shown would be more appropriate if the array were a 1D array of string pointers, but you say (not actually shown) that it is a 2D array. – Weather Vane Jun 03 '21 at 17:47
@WeatherVane I am reading the words from a text file and it is stored as a 2D array – python_coder_ Jun 03 '21 at 18:17

Removing an element from 2D char array in C

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