Example Creating an Array of Strings

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16.5 Example Creating an Array of Strings

This C example writes an array of strings as an attribute.

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This attribute is an array of strings, each of different length.
It was not necessary to count characters or use a maximum length.
No space is wasted padding out strings corresponding to shorter lines.

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