C - Building an array of pointers

Introduction

An array of pointers is an array that holds memory locations.

An array of pointers is really an array of strings in the following code.

Demo

#include <stdio.h> 

int main() /*  www .j av  a2 s.co m*/
{ 
   char *fruit[] = { 
       "abc", 
       "def", 
       "pear", 
       "apple", 
       "Java", 
       "XML", 
       "CSS" 
   }; 
   int x; 

   for(x=0;x<7;x++) 
       puts(fruit[x]); 

   //replace the array notation with pointer notation. 
   for(x=0;x<7;x++)
       puts(*(fruit+x));
   return(0); 
}

Result

Related Topic

• Arrays and Pointers
• Access array element by pointer
• Incrementing a pointer to an array of long type integers
• Two-dimensional arrays and pointers
• Use pointer notation to get to the values within a two-dimensional array
• Getting values in a two-dimensional array with pointer and for loop
• Using pointer to access multidimensional arrays
• Pointer math in array
• Pointers for array notation
• Dereference array of pointers
• Pointer Notation and Array Notation

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