Hello everyone,

I am a windows' VB programmer, so either
linux programing or C++ is new to me.

when I use KDevelop to create a simple
console program, The main function is auto
declared like this:

int main (int argc, char * argv[]) {

};.

I know that the declaration: char * variablesname
is used to declare a pointer; the declaration
char variablesname[] is used to declare a array.
and I hear that pointer, some how, is a special kind
of arrays.

So that what does the declaration char * argv[] means?
How can I access to the agruments pass to my program?

char *argv[] is an array of char pointers. A pointer can be seen as equivalent to an array, storing the address of the first element. In this case, what you've got is an array of strings. Each of your program's arguments will be held in an element of this array. For example, if you called your program as "foo arg1 arg2", then the array would have the following contents:

argv[0] = "foo"
argv[1] = "arg1"
argv[2] = "arg2"

The argc variable contains the number of arguments to the program, and in this case would be 3. It's very important that you use this value to make sure you don't go past the end of the array.