Days of the week in an array in C

Question

How do I do this? This is what I've tried so far and it keeps erroring saying naughty things at me :/

char DaysOfWeek[] = { 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday' };

Well, read closely at those **naughty things** first, I'm sure they are helpful. — Yu Hao, Jul 08 '14 at 04:13
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1088622/how-do-i-create-an-array-of-strings-in-c — deru, Jul 08 '14 at 04:26
Possible duplicate of [Array of all NSDate for a week](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10957200/array-of-all-nsdate-for-a-week) — Kindle Q, Feb 03 '17 at 12:06

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:18

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try

char * DaysOfWeek[] = { "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday" };

answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:18

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What is the asterisk in between char and DaysOfWeek? – user2308700 Jul 08 '14 at 04:19
It indicates a pointer to `char`, rather than a `char`. So you're declaring an array of strings, rather than an array of characters (which can be a string). – user3553031 Jul 08 '14 at 04:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:15

Your first problem is that you're defining an Array of Characters, which is just a single string. You'd want a 2D array of characters, ie. char**, char*[], or char[][] to hold multiple strings/words. Also, you need to use double quotes " " rather than single quotes ' ' when holding Strings in C.

The next step from here depends on your errors, I would say. I also don't think you can initialize a 2D array inline like that. You'd have to do something like char[][] days = { {'M', 'o', 'n', 'd', 'a', 'y'}, ... } I believe.

Good answer, well done on breaking 1k. You can initialize it as in chouaib's answer. see here: http://ideone.com/jQ7oyI — Fantastic Mr Fox, Jul 08 '14 at 04:20

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:23

There are two problems:

You need to use double quotes in C literal strings.
This is a two dimensional array, you need to give some constant value to the second dimension.

Like this:

char DaysOfWeek[][20] = {"Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday" };

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:15

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In C, you need to use double quotes ("foo") to enclose strings. Single quotes ('a') are for characters.

You also need to declare your variable as an array of strings, not as a single string, as Ricky Mutschlechner pointed out.

answered Jul 08 '14 at 04:15

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Days of the week in an array in C

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