Subj : accessing a subset of a subset To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Rob C." Date : Mon Oct 13 2003 01:17 pm OK. Let’s say I have 20 character arrays. I put their pointers into an array of pointers. lineptr[0] = '\0'; lineptr[1] = line1; lineptr[2] = line2; lineptr[3] = line3; lineptr[4] = line4; lineptr[5] = line5; lineptr[6] = line6; lineptr[7] = line7; lineptr[8] = line8; lineptr[9] = line9; lineptr[10] = line10; lineptr[11] = line11; lineptr[12] = line12; lineptr[13] = line13; lineptr[14] = line14; lineptr[15] = line15; lineptr[16] = line16; lineptr[17] = line17; lineptr[18] = line18; lineptr[19] = line19; lineptr[20] = line20; Next, I want to refer to a particular character array, and a particular subset within that character array. Example, sub 7 of lineptr[11]. This has got me stumped. .