I understand I want to use malloc, but How do I have it hold pointers? If I am given a number for the size of the array and I want each one of those indexes to point to another array.
Some input on how to start it would be helpful. I know its not too many lines of code but the concept is abstract to me making it hard to know where to start in the code.
Well malloc allocates an area of memory the size of so many bytes. So if you want to hold pointers in that memory, you'll need to multiply the size of a single pointer by how many you want in that area.
Here's a little example for an array of strings (which are just pointers)...
const char ** array_of_strings;
array_of_strings = malloc(2 * sizeof (const char *));/* size for two pointers */
array_of_strings[0] = "first string";
array_of_strings[1] = "second string";
