How do you decipher complex declarations of pointers+arrays?

Question

Although I use std::vector almost all the time, I am interested in understanding as much as I can about pointers. Examples of what I am talking about:

Answer 1

cdecl is a program which is nice for this sort of thing. (particularly when you add function pointers into the mix!)

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cdecl> explain char* foo[5]
declare foo as array 5 of pointer to char
cdecl> declare bar as array 5 of pointer to function (integer, integer) returning char
char (*bar[5])(int , int )