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I'm having serious problem with the following code:
unsigned char code * Progtxtstring_ENG[] = { "PROGRAM", "SYSTEM" }; unsigned char code * pMenu; //User selected English pMenu = Progtxtstring_ENG; //Why doesn't this work, it just get garbage out: printf("%s",pMenu[0]); // This line below works printf("%s",Progtxtstring_SWE[0])
Why not just use a 2-dimensional array? Because true 2-dimensional arrays essentially don't exist in C? You can define arrays-of-arrays, sure, by you can't do very much with them that wouldn't silently turn them into a pointer-to-array. Or because he would need a dynamic array for this to work, with more than one unknown dimensions, found in some other place than the outer-most indexing level:
char string_table[n_tables][/*unknown*/][/*unknown*/]
"Or because he would need a dynamic array for this to work" Really? I'd assumed there'd be a fixed number of languages, and a fixed number of entries in each menu - especially as he's storing them in code space:
char menu[NUM_LANGUAGES][NUM_ENTRIES]
"Because true 2-dimensional arrays essentially don't exist in C? You can define arrays-of-arrays, sure, by you can't do very much with them that wouldn't silently turn them into a pointer-to-array." But, surely, the same could be said of 1-dimensional arrays - you can't do much with them, either, that doesn't silently turn them into pointers? After all, the offset operator [] can be applied to any pointer - whether or not it was defined as an array!