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

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

look below :)

>>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);

//sorry meant:
str_arr[0] = (char*) malloc(10*sizeof(char));

//note the last bracket *shy*

>
>...
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>>Shane Plesner
>
>Regards,
>Khalid Al-Kary
>
>
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