On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Antioch wrote:
> Ok, so i've come across this thing that i can't identify in any of my C
> books and my head's starting to hurt from banging it on the wall:
>
> char **list_of_something;
>
This is a pointer to a pointer to a character. An easier way to look at
it would be if we said somehting like this:
char some_char;
char *ptr_to_char;
char **ptr_to_ptr_to_char;
now if we said
some_character='A';
we could set pointer_to_character
pointing to some_character, then we could set ptr_to_ptr_to_character
pointing to pointer_to_character. Schematically, it might look like this:
ptr_to_ptr_to_char ptr_to_char some_char
--- --- ---
|.|----> |.|----> |A|
--- --- ---
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