Arrays of Strings

We have seen that strings are just arrays of characters, terminated by a null character. We have also seen that the variables that hold strings (like arrays of other types, e.g. int or double) are actually pointers to the head of the array.

Using an array of pointers

We can use an array of pointers, where each pointer points to the head of a character array (in other words a string), to store an array of strings. Here’s a coding example: