Re: [Dev-C++] One other minor problem

[Khalid El-K. <kha...@ho...>]

>I also have one other minor problem.
>
>Though I have looked through over 16 different manuals and tutorials, and 
>have searched over 50 websites I cannot seem to find out the difference 
>between
>
>char* foo;
>char *foo;
>char* *foo;
>
>From my own expirements (purposely generating compiler errors) it >appears 
>to me that the first two are identical.  They both seem to >declare foo to 
>be a variable of type char*.  The second seems to >declare foo a pointer to 
>type char*.  It also appears to me that type >char* is actually a char[] of 
>dynamic length because I can get string >functions to work on it - just 
>like on char[].
>
>I have found no confirmation of any of this though.  I would appreciate 
> >any info anyone has about this.

Your thoughts are right, but the thing that produces compilation error, 
maybe the malloc/realloc/calloc thing associated with them:

//for char**:
char **str_arr;
int num_of_elements = 5;
str_arr = (char**) malloc(num_of_elements*sizeof(char*));

//the for each element of that array you should malloc
str_arr[0] = (char*) malloc(10*sizeof(char);

...

Hope that helps.

>Shane Plesner

Regards,
Khalid Al-Kary


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