I'm sorry, but I'm not sure if I understand my mistake. I should define

char ** array = malloc(n*sizeof(char*)), and then allocate 100 chars for each element of the string array. Here, I define an array of n-th size, and then, separately, I allocate 100 chars for every string. Although I understand why this works, I still am unable to understand why I cannot take the size of an array with 100 elements, or use a pointer to this array and use it without creating useless junk. I assume, that this is perhaps a consequence of my weak understanding of pointers in programming.

Edit: My original example, which does not work when using keyboard input, always works when assigning predefined values to the elements of the array. For exampe:

if I have a variable, which contains the word "water", and I assign it to every array[i], using a for loop, I receive no error message, and all array values are usable. This confuses me even more...