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From: lwb@pensoft.uucp (Lance Bledsoe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What does char **ch mean?
Message-ID: <1991May6.194219.9499@pensoft.uucp>
Date: 6 May 91 19:42:19 GMT
References: <1991May4.062007.3264@weyrich.UUCP>
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In article <1991May4.062007.3264@weyrich.UUCP> orville@weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>I am studying for a C language exam, and a study guide I am using states 
>that the declaration char **ch; is equivalent to char *ch;
>
>I am having difficulty understanding this. My interpretation of the
>declaration char **ch is that we have a pointer to a pointer to a char.
>I think that this would be equivalent to the declaration char *ch[]
>rather than what the study guide says. 

You are correct.





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