Re: Use of Double Pointers

#1 August 29th, 2008, 11:15 PM

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stevenr...@gmail.com wrote:

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> I am pretty rusty when it comes to C. I am reading in input and
>trying to create of vector of pointers to store data based on spaces.
>I understand the idea of pointers, but I am having issues
>understanding on how to use char **. Below is the code I am running.
>In the code, I am storing input from the read command for traversing.
>How do I obtain the values from the array that is being referenced
>through the variable vPointer to? This is input from the user
>(characters).

>
This question properly belongs in comp.lang.c. I'm cross-posting this
response, and redirecting follow-ups to comp.lang.c only.

[...]

In addition to the advice James gave you, please avoid the term
"double pointer" to refer to a pointer to a pointer. A "double
pointer" would be a pointer to type double, which is a floating-point
type.

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