Random Coordnate generator

[Flash41000]

In my Highschool Programming club we are trying to make a guessing game that works similar to Battleship, guess the cordinates that the Computer randomly generators I think I have found an example that I could use in order to do this but it conufuses me at this point,

char State[50][255] = {"Alabama",
					   "Alaska",
					   "Arizona",
					   "Arkansas",

Etc.
Im assuming the 50 after char State means the fifty states that it will pick from, whats the 255 mean?

[Corpus]

That is the length of the 2nd dimension in the char table you have declared, i.e. the maximum length of any state's name.

[Flash41000]

Thanks, thats one thing I thought but wasnt sure.

[Zaita]

Why not use a C++ data structure instead of a 2D character array?

A fixed length vector of strings, or an array of strings would be a better idea.

e.g

string State[50] = {"Ala", "Bala" etc};

vector<string> States;
States.resize(50);

States[0] = "Alabama";