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Subj : Re: multi-dimensional array/pointer help
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Thu Apr 08 2004 08:25 pm

detritus wrote:

>It should read :
>
>> int main()
>> {
>>   char *num[2][2] = {{"One","Two"},{"Three","Four"}};
>>   char ***numPtr;
>>   numPtr = num;
>>   return 0;
>> }
>
>What I would like to know is why the following code works and the above
>dosent:

Too many **s.
If you say	char num[2];
	Then "num" is a char*
If you say	char two[2][3];
	Then "two" is still a char*
If you say	char*num[2][2];
	Then "num" is a char**
Trying to put a char** into a char*** doesn't work.
That's why the below code works and the above doesn't. Nothing to do
with the extra[] or "Three","Four" parts.
"num" contains 4 pointers to char, not 4 pointers to pointers to char.

>int main()
>{
>  char *num2[2] = {"One","Two"};
>  char **num2Ptr;
>  num2Ptr = num2;
>  return 0;
>}

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