double pointer

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5Mar2007,17:05   #1
anilk501's Avatar
what is use of double paointers and give me some example in real wolrd application
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5Mar2007,17:20   #2
DaWei's Avatar
I presume you mean a pointer to a pointer, and not a pointer to a double type. Here's a non-programming example: You ask me for contact information for a plumber. I point you to the phone book. The phone book points you to the plumber. A programming example would be a 2D pseudo-array gotten from the heap one row at a time. To access a given element, one would provide a pointer to the row pointer, which would then be dereferenced to get the element.
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4Apr2007,02:17   #3
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Originally Posted by DaWei
I presume you mean a pointer to a pointer, and not a pointer to a double type. Here's a non-programming example: You ask me for contact information for a plumber. I point you to the phone book. The phone book points you to the plumber. A programming example would be a 2D pseudo-array gotten from the heap one row at a time. To access a given element, one would provide a pointer to the row pointer, which would then be dereferenced to get the element.
was a very nice and self explanatory example DaWei. Thanks