On Apr 25 16:45, 1997, Jerry Coffin of 1:128/166.5 wrote:
JC> On (23 Apr 97) Anthony Tibbs wrote to Kurt Kuzba...
AT>> pointer, but not in this case.)
JC> Actually, what he declared were perfectly legal - they're arrays of
JC> pointers to char - i.e. arrays of strings. These are useful if you
JC> have
JC> a bunch of strings of widely varying lengths, so you want to only
JC> allocate as much for each string as needed.
I see that now. My mistake. It *wasn't* what he wanted to do, though.
Anthony
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