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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Those types would look like this without typedefs:
>
> char *  str;
> char *  array_of_str[];
> char ** ptr_to_str;
> char ** array_of_ptr_to_str[];
>
> (The arrays will need a dimension, or need to be initialised.)
>
> But arrays of pointers to strings would be unusual, and be harder to 
> initialise as you can't just have "ABC", but need to set up a named 
> string: char* abc="ABC", then use &abc.

I think you meant that arrays of pointers to arrays would be unusual.

A "pointer to a string" is by definition a pointer to the initial
character of a string.  Arrays of pointers to strings are quite common;
for example, argv points to the initial element of such an array.

[...]

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