I'm getting confused here, I want to pass a character array to rfile() and argv[] happens to be an array of character arrays, so argv[i + 1] should return the pointer to the first element of said ...

Keep in mind that an array is essentially a pointer pointed at a bunch of data and obviously a C-String is just an array of chars so an array of C-Strings can be represent with a pointer to a char ...

Longer answer: it depends on what you mean by "equivalent". Pointer arithmetic and array indexing are equivalent. In other aspects, pointers and arrays are different. The semantics of arrays in C ...

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This document is intended to introduce pointers to beginning programmers in the C programming language. Over several years of reading and contributing to various conferences on C including those on ...