Subj : Re: accessing a subset of a subset
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder@glue.ch (Thomas Maeder [TeamB])
Date : Mon Oct 13 2003 11:43 pm

"Rob C." <robb_christiansen@juno.com> writes:

> OK. Let's say I have 20 character arrays. I put their pointers 
> into an array of pointers. 
> lineptr[0] = '\0';
>     lineptr[1] = line1;

In addition to what Ed Mulroy posted, there's an inconsistency here: you
are assigning lineptr[0] a character literal and lineptr[1] (what you write
is a) pointer to char.

If the element type of the array lineptr is pointer to char, there isn't a
big problem, since the characer literal '\0' is implicitly converted to the
null pointer, but this is still confusing for the human reader.

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