On (23 Apr 97) Anthony Tibbs wrote to Kurt Kuzba...
 AT> On Apr 19 11:09, 1997, Kurt Kuzba of 1:154/750 wrote:
 KK>       char* FromName[36];
 KK>       char* ToName[36];
 KK>       char* Subject[72];
 AT> "char *FromName [36];" ?  This won't/shouldn't even compile correctly.
It had better compile, or the the compiler's broken.
 AT>  You *should* be using either of the following two methods:
[ demo code elided ]
 AT> The second method would be the easiest.  However, the the method you
 AT> specified is saying this:  I want a pointer to a pointer to a 36 byte
 AT> char.  (I know it is possible to have a pointer to a pointer, but not
 AT> in this case.)
Actually, what he declared were perfectly legal - they're arrays of
pointers to char - i.e. arrays of strings.  These are useful if you have
a bunch of strings of widely varying lengths, so you want to only
allocate as much for each string as needed.
    Later,
    Jerry.
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