arrays and pointers

#include <stdio.h>
#include "syntax.h"
int main()
{
    int i;
    int j;
    /* 
     * Need to point 'syntax' to a double array (decided on run-time) 
     * I have 10-20 arrays that *syntax can point to
     * This is where it causes problems: 
     */
    char *syntax;
    syntax = c_syntax; /* just for testing purposes*/
    
    printf("Starting test\n");
    /* 
     * Loop through and print everything in c_syntax 
     * If I use c_syntax in the loop here the code works
     */
    for(i = 0; i < 2; i++){
        for(j = 0; j < strlen(syntax[i]); j++){
            printf("%c", syntax[i][j]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
        char *syntax[4][2] = {
                { "word", "test" },
                { "c", "php" },
                { "c++", "java" },
                { "python", "perl" }
        };

        int i;

        for (i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
                        printf("%s and %s\n", syntax[i][0], syntax[i][1]);
        }

        return 0;
}

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define SIZE 2

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
        char *c_syntax[SIZE];
        char buf[8192]; /* should be enough for most strings :) */
        int i;

        for (i = 0; i < SIZE; i++) {
                fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin); /* should check return code */
                c_syntax[i] = malloc(strlen(buf) + 1); /* again, should check for errors */
                strcpy(c_syntax[i], buf);
        }

        /* print array in reverse */
        for (i = SIZE; i > 0; i--) {
                printf("%s", c_syntax[i-1]);
        }

        return 0;
}