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From: chet@mandrill.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C arrays of strings
Message-ID: <2309@mandrill.CWRU.Edu>
Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 21:08:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 21:08:53 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Nov-87 07:41:49 EST
References: <3157@rosevax.Rosemount.COM>
Reply-To: chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey)
Organization: CWRU Dept. of Computer Engineering, Cleveland OH
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Keywords: C

In the referenced article richw@rosevax.Rosemount.COM (Rich Wagenknecht) writes:
>Could someone explain the following declaration in english and
>give an example of how to use it? I believe I can use this declaration
>but cannot explain how is works. What I'm after is simply an array of
>character strings.
>
>  char *str[12];

Script started on Wed Nov 18 20:55:31 1987

chet%cdecl
explain char *str[12]
declare str as array 12 of pointer to char

script done on Wed Nov 18 20:56:16 1987

That will do the job, if what you want is an array of character strings.

In a mailer I wrote (truly a small thing, but you have to start somewhere),
I used just such a structure to keep around the resolved addresses, after
I plucked the unresolved ones out of argv.  I also used them to point into
a large, statically-allocated array of chars (keep all the addresses in this
long array, and keep pointers to them -- you get the idea).

Chet Ramey    chet@mandrill.CWRU.Edu    {cbosgd,decvax,sun}!mandrill!chet

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