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From: Thomas Hansen <thomas DOT hansenNOSPAMORILLSUEYOURXXX AT adramatch DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ** Pointer thingie's <= what's up with the double *?
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:11:16 +0100
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 12:11:48 +0100, there came a drop of sanity from
"Emile Bosch" <emilebosch AT hotmail DOT com> containing:

>whoosh that was a FAST reply =) Thanks!! I think i understand it now, have
>to bring it
>to real life with an example though!
>
>is this a good example of it?:
>
>int c;
>int *ptr;
>int **fptr;
A fairly good sample is :


void GetInt(int **ppInt);

int main()
{
  int * ppInt;
  GetInt(&ppInt);
}

void GetInt(int **pointer)
{
 *pointer = new int[50];
 for(int n=0;n<50;n++)
    (*pointer)[n] = n*14+26;
}

Things like this would be "impossible" to do without pointers to
pointers...

BTW!
Just wrote this directly into my newsreader, don't know if it works...
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