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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Casting for a fish that never arrived
Message-ID: <5711@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 20:00:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 20:00:46 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 16-May-85 03:49:57 EDT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
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Your second example works because Words is (correctly) a pointer to
an array 4 of pointer to char (in cdecl syntax).  You don't even need
the casts in the assignment statements.

If you want to do it without typedefs, try

char *Cwords[2][4] = {{"1", "2", "3", "4"}, {"a", "b", "c", "d"}};
char *Pwords[2][4] = {{"w", "x", "y", "z"}, {"9", "8", "7", "6"}};
char *(*Words)[4];

main()
{
	register int i, j;

	Words = Cwords;
	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
		for (j = 0; j < 4; j++)
			printf("%s\n", Words[i][j]);
	Words = Pwords;
	for (i = 0; i < 2; i++)
		for (j = 0; j < 4; j++)
			printf("%s\n", Words[i][j]);
}
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