How do you allocate more memory for a pointer in straight C? in C++ it would look like this: char *string; string = new char[11]; string = "hello world"; What I need to do is create and array of strings to hold file names. I have mostly C++ experience. I don't think the 'new' keyword is allowed in C.

You use malloc and calloc. Besides taking different parameters, the main difference is that calloc clears out the allocated memory by filling it with zeros. The program below allocates an array of 5 character pointers and then assigns strings to the pointers. Many times you'll use calloc/malloc to allocate the individual strings also. #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> int main(void) {   char **myFilenames;   int filenameCount = 5;   myFilenames = (char**)calloc(sizeof(char**),filenameCount);   if (myFilenames == NULL) {     printf("Error allocating filename array\n");     exit(1);   }   myFilenames[0] = "filename1.txt";   myFilenames[1] = "filename2.txt";   myFilenames[2] = "filename3.txt";   myFilenames[3] = "filename4.txt";   myFilenames[4] = "filename5.txt";   printf("0 = %s\n",myFilenames[0]);   printf("1 = %s\n",myFilenames[1]);   printf("2 = %s\n",myFilenames[2]);   printf("3 = %s\n",myFilenames[3]);   printf("4 = %s\n",myFilenames[4]);   free(myFilenames); }

Thanks I will try that.