Re: I'm not REALLY a newbie, but.......

From: jeffc (nobody_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 06/02/04 

Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 10:11:45 -0400

"as mellow as a horse" <mail@MICKmoss42.fslife.co.uk> wrote in message
news:c9j0um$u9u$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> I thought passing the pointer was enough rather than passing the
> address of the pointer as this code appears to be doing.

When using pointers rather than references, you have to pass a pointer to
ANYTHING that you want to change. If what you want to change is a pointer,
then of course you have to pass a pointer to that.