On Thursday 25 October 2001 01:06 pm, Microchip wrote:
> I want to declare an array of strings like :
>
> const unsigned char Str1 [2][5] = {"Hello", "Bye  "};
>
> My problem is the compilator doesn't put the null caracter (\0) at end of
> each string.

That's because there are 5 characters in "Hello" and you didn't give it any
room to put the NUL in .

This suggestion won't work for the same reason:

> Try this:
>
> const unsigned char Str1 [2][5] = {"Hello\0", "Bye  \0"};
>
> That should put an explicit NULL at the end of each string.

The (const unsigned char str1[2][6]) should give you enough room as well as
give you the NUL chars.

But note that this will reserve space for 12 bytes; if you have a
larger/sparser array than this it might make sense to have an array of char*
(of course, the generated code may be somewhat slower because the PIC is bad
at pointers):

const unsigned char  * const Str1[2] = { "Hello", "Bye" };

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