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Subject: Re: How to passing multidimesional array of string to function?
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 20:41:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:50:08 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 7/24/2012 1:21 PM, Varun Tewari wrote:
>> Eventually, its a char pointer.
> 
>      No: A "multidimensional array of string" might be any of a
> few different things, but "a char pointer" is not among them.

No, Varun is correct here. C pointers can be complicated so I will 
explain in some detail.

First, you must understand that arrays and pointers are really the same 
thing under the hood. An array is kind of like a fixed length pointer.

So "array of X" = "pointer to X", here X can be anything (except void, 
where we can have a pointer to a void type but not a void array).

Now, the string type in C is char*, e.g. pointer to char. However when 
people talk of "pointer to a string" they mean "pointer to a sequence of 
chars terminating in the NULL byte (\000). So "pointer to string" = 
"string".

Now we have:

array of string
= pointer to string
= string
= char *

Hope that helps. It took me a while to get comfortable with this stuff.

Best regards,
___ C3PO ___