Scan String Input for each testcase in C - c

Question

the objective of my question is very simple. The first input that I get from the user is n (number of test cases). For each test case, the program will scan a string input from the user. And each of these strings I will process separately.
The question here is how can I get string inputs and process them separately in C language??? The idea is similar to the dictionary concept where we can have many words which are individual arrays inside one big array.
The program I have written so far:
#include <stdio.h>
#define max 100
int main (){
int n; // number of testcases
char str [100];
scanf ("%d\n",&n);
for (int i =0;i <n;i++){
scanf ("%s",&str [i]);
}
getchar ();
return 0;
}
Can someone suggest what should be done?
The input should be something like this:
Input 1:
3
Shoe
Horse
House
Input 2:
2
Flower
Bee
here 3 and 2 are the values of n, the number of test cases.

Answer 1

First of all, Don't be confused between "string" in C++ , and "Character Array" in C.
Since your question is based on C language, I will be answering according to that...
#include <stdio.h>
int main (){
int n; // number of testcases
char str [100][100] ; // many words , as individual arrays inside one big array
scanf ("%d\n",&n);
for (int i =0;i <n;i++){
scanf ("%s",str[i]); // since you are taking string , not character
}
// Now if you want to access i'th word you can do like
for(int i = 0 ; i < n; i++)
printf("%s\n" , str[i]);
getchar ();
return 0;
}
Now here instead of using a two-dimensional array, you can also use a one-dimensional array and separate two words by spaces, and store each word's starting position in some another array. (which is lot of implementation).

Answer 2

First of all yours is not C program, as you can't declare variable inside FOR loop in C, secondly have created a prototype using Pointer to Pointer, storing character array in matrix style datastructure, here is the code :-
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define max 100
int main (){
int n,i; // number of testcases
char str [100];
char **strArray;
scanf ("%d",&n);
strArray = (char **) malloc(n);
for (i =0;i <n;i++){
(strArray)[i] = (char *) malloc(sizeof(char)*100);
scanf ("%s",(strArray)[i]);
}
for (i =0;i <n;i++){
printf("%s\n",(strArray)[i]);
free((strArray)[i]);
}
getchar ();
return 0;
}

Answer 3

#include <stdio.h>
#define MAX 100 // poorly named
int n=0; // number of testcases
char** strs=0;
void releaseMemory() // don't forget to release memory when done
{
int counter; // a better name
if (strs != 0)
{
for (counter=0; counter<n; counter++)
{
if (strs[counter] != 0)
free(strs[counter]);
}
free(strs);
}
}
int main ()
{
int counter; // a better name
scanf("%d\n",&n);
strs = (char**) calloc(n,sizeof(char*));
if (strs == 0)
{
printf("outer allocation failed!")
return -1;
}
for (counter=0; counter<n; counter++)
{
strs[counter] = (char*) malloc(MAX*sizeof(char));
if (strs[counter] == 0)
{
printf("allocate buffer %d failed!",counter)
releaseMemory();
return -1;
}
scanf("%s",&strs[counter]); // better hope the input is less than MAX!!
// N.B. - this doesn't limit input to one word, use validation to handle that
}
getchar();
// do whatever you need to with the data
releaseMemory();
return 0;
}