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From: avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do you declare a pointer to a two dimensional array?
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Date: 10 Nov 90 22:13:01 GMT
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Well, any array, when referred to by name only without subscripts,
translates into a pointer to the lowest element of the array, i.e.
the location of spam[0][0].

However, at least on my machine, pointers don't take kindly to more
than one dimension of indexing.

So I resorted to making a separate array of pointers, and setting
each of the elements of this array of pointers to match the addresses
of each of the subarrays of the original.

Kinda like:

int spam [10][10];
int *pointer[10];
int index;

for (index=0;index<10;++index)
   pointer[index]=spam[index];

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