What does char **ch mean?

[Tom Armistead]

In article <1991May4.062007.3264 at weyrich.UUCP> orville at weyrich.UUCP (Orville R. Weyrich) writes:
>I am studying for a C language exam, and a study guide I am using states 
>that the declaration char **ch; is equivalent to char *ch;
>
>I am having difficulty understanding this. My interpretation of the
>declaration char **ch is that we have a pointer to a pointer to a char.
>I think that this would be equivalent to the declaration char *ch[]
>rather than what the study guide says. 
>
>Am I missing something obvious?
>
>Thanks,
>
>orville.
>
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Nope, your not missing anything.  Your 'study guide' is wrong!

Tom
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