What does that mean in c? char *array[]= { “**”, “**”, “**” };

Question

In some code that I read, there was an initializing statement like this

char *array[]= { \"something1\", \"something2\", \"something3\" };

Answer 1

This is a way to initialize an array at the same time that you create it.

This code

char *array[]= { "a", "b", "c" };

will have the same result as this code.

char *array[3];

array[0] = "a";
array[1] = "b";
array[2] = "c";

Here is a good source for more information.

http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark/CTutorial/CTutorial.html#Strings

EDIT:

char array[3]; is an array of 3 char. char *array[3]; is an array of 3 pointers to char.