Why does the index of a `char **` type give the whole string?

Question

Consider this snippet:

#include 

using std::cout;
using std::endl;

int main()
{
    char c[] = {\'a\',\'b\',\'c\',\'\\0\'};
    char *pc = c;
           


        

Answer 1

These are equivalent:

cout << ppc[0] << endl;
cout << *( ppc + 0 ) << endl;
cout << *ppc << endl;
cout << *(&pc) << endl;
cout << pc << endl;