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    • #2217
      AlfredoODonnell
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      Hi ,

      I have a string array having a bunch of values. I need to sort this array, remove duplicate values from this array and reset the filtered array (without duplicate values) to a new array.

      I am new to C programming. I have written some code, but it fails with a core dump always. Can some one please correct my code or send me an easy way to do this.

      Thanks.

      code snippet:
      #include
      #include
      #include
      #include

      main ()
      {
      int stat = 0;
      int ctr = 4;
      int inx = 0;
      int status = 0;
      int j = 0;
      int k = 0;
      int reset_count = 0;
      char **lov_reset_values = 0;
      char *str[] = { “test”, “test1”, “test2”, “test” };

      for ( inx = 0; inx < ctr; inx ++ )
      {
      printf ( “str[%d] = %sn”, inx, str[inx] );
      }

      for(j=0;j {
      status = 0;
      for(k=1;k<=ctr;k++)
      {
      printf ( “entered after k= 0n” );
      if( strcmp (str[j],str[k] ) == 0 )
      {
      printf ( “matchedn” );
      status = 1;
      break;
      }
      }
      if ( status == 0 )
      {
      if (reset_count == 0 )
      {
      printf ( “reset_count = 0n” );
      lov_reset_values = (char **)malloc( sizeof(char *));
      }
      else
      {
      printf ( “reset_count = %dn”, reset_count );
      lov_reset_values = (char **)realloc( lov_reset_values, sizeof(char *)*(reset_count+1) );
      }

      lov_reset_values[reset_count] = (char *)malloc( sizeof( char )*(strlen(str[j])+1));
      strcpy ( lov_reset_values[reset_count], (str)[j] );
      printf ( “lov_reset_values[%d] = %sn”, reset_count, lov_reset_values[reset_count]);
      reset_count = reset_count + 1;
      }
      }

      printf (” reset_count = %dn”, reset_count );

      /*
      for ( inx = 0; inx < reset_count; inx++ )
      {
      printf ( “lov_reset_values[%d] = %sn”, inx, lov_reset_values[inx] );
      }
      */

      return stat;
      }

    • #3599
      GWILouisaxwzkla
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      What type of sort are you using ? I would just sort , count unique instances , allocate enough memory to hold the unique instances and copy the data ……

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