Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 13:28:10 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Ely Wilson Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: array of pointers to strings, BC++, DJGPP and weird printing , behavior In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Ely Wilson wrote: > > > : > KeyWords = (char **) malloc ( sizeof(char) ); > > > I've never seen this ^^ before, what did I miss and when? > arrays of...what I don't recognize is that double asterisk..*THAT* I've > never seen...which is what I was referring to..so, what did I miss, if The declaration "char ** KeyWords;" means that KeyWords is a pointer to a pointer to char. Casting to (char **) means converting to a pointer to a pointer to a char.