How to create pointer array by memory allocation?

[nozone]

Hi. I am new to the C language. I need to store the commands from input to a pointer array without any "[]"declaratio n. How to create an pointer array by memory allocation? I tried to use the following statement, but it did not work.

static char **choice = (char **)calloc(NUMBE R_COMMAND,sizeo f(char **));

I want to declare this array as private and use by all functions, so I use "static".
Thanks

[Banfa]

static char **choice = (char **)calloc(NUMBER_COMMAND,sizeof(char *));

for(i=0; i<NUMBER_COMMAND; i++)
{
    choice[i] = (char *)calloc(<CommandSize>,sizeof(char));
}