Help with pointer & array

[unclefester]

I'm confused on how to interpret the following statement:

char * varName[];

Is it a pointer to a char array or an array of char pointers? Advanced thanks.

[ashitpro]

I'm confused on how to interpret the following statement:

char * varName[];

Is it a pointer to a char array or an array of char pointers? Advanced thanks.

This is array of pointer.
when you declare something like:
char (*p)[5];
then 'p' is called as pointer to array.

[weaknessforcats]

char * varName[];

This won't compile. You cannot create an array without specifying the number of elements. Do not confuse the above with this:
[code=c]
char * varName[] = {"Hello", "world"};
[/code]

Here varName is an array of 2 char*. The compiler gets the number of elements from the the initialization syntax.

Maybe you could read http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread772412.html.