 <p>Try this:</p> <pre><code>typedef char board[10][10]; </code></pre> <p>Then you can define new array as this:</p> <pre><code>board double_array = {"hello", "world"}; </code></pre> <p>It's the same with:</p> <pre><code>char double_array[10][10] = {"hello", "world"}; </code></pre>