command line arguments

[singhhome]

can anyone tell what is the type of argv,
whether it is-
pointer to array of pointers
or
pointer

the declaration char *argv[], means aray of char pointers

[Shiro]

The variable argv is an array of pointers to string.

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    /* Print first string in argv, which is name of program */
    printf ("%s\n", argv [0]);
    return 0;
}