Re: char* argv[]

William Pursell said:

On Dec 14, 11:30 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Logan said:

int main(int argc, char *argv) {
<snip>

Your second program thinks argv is a string, which it isn't.

No.

Your "correction" is incorrect.

In the second program, argv is a pointer to
an array of characters.

No, in the second program argv is (incorrectly defined as) a pointer to the
*first element* in an array of characters. The program then uses this
value as an argument matching a printf %s format specifier - in other
words, the program thinks argv is a string (just as I claimed), and is
using it as one.

C doesn't have a string type.

Non sequitur. I didn't claim that C has a string type.

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