Please don't use "reply" to start new thread, thanks. On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 05:55:44AM -0800, Poul Jensen wrote: > I need to fetch strings from a database with ECPG and then sort them in > C. Here is one of my failed attempts: <snip> > varchar filenms[][maxlen]=NULL; I think you need to reread the C manual as to the difference between arrays and pointers. I'm don't know about ECPG, but I think your other attempt, using "char**" was much closer to the mark. > It compiles ok, but I get garbage in variable filenms. If I change the > declaration of filenms to: > char **filenms=NULL; > the SQL query returns strings ok. But the strings have variable length, > and I need to specify one length in qsort, so it won't work. Another Since you're declaring a array of pointers to char, the width you have to specify to qsort would be sizeof(char*). I think you can just use the normal strcmp() function with qsort then. Ofcourse, you could get the database to sort them for you... Hope this helps, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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