From: "Andrew Davidson" <andrew AT lemure DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Array question (a little bit newbie)
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:04:06 -0000
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I'm having a spot of bother defining an 'unsized' array of char pointers.
What I want is an array filled with pointers to pointers to a list of chars,
a little like:

char *mylist[]= {
"item 1", "item 2", "item 3"
};

(incidentally, why can't I get a compile on char **mylist= {"item1", "item
2","item3"}; if I can do char **argv in main()? )

The difference is I don't want a list of pointers to strings, I want
pointers to lists of chars of varying length.
Oh and while I'm at it is there any way of calculating the length of any of
these lists without using terminating characters or placing a byte count at
the front of each list? Would sizeof(mylist[<list number>]) work?

Thanks for you time, sorry to be so unclued about such a basic point. I've
tried looking it up in a couple of C manuals but they don't seem to be
interested in anything past string arrays... Maybe I ought to buy a new
book.

Andrew