#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
char **q;
for (q = argv; *q; q++)
{
printf("next argv= %p\t: "%s"\n', *q, *q);
}
return 0;
}

I know char **argv, means argv contains the memory address of another pointer *argv which contains a memory address of a string.

Now here is my question, when i typed in something like "adad asdasd adasd",
the **argv seems that it can take in multiple arguments. Can someone explain this phenomenon? Isn't the parameter argv can only take one argument into the function.

p.s this is a lecture example, argc is not nessccary i guess.

usually you write is as char *argv[]

So this is actually a pointer to an array of charecter pointers. This is why you can take multiple arguments and the variable argc is the count of how many elements there are in the array.

`argv' (whether declared as **argv, *argv[] or argv[][]) is a pointer to an array of pointers. The easiest way to understand this is to swap from array notation to pointer arithmetic notation (making no functional difference, but easier to understand). So, if a variable is declared as `char **ptrptr' and contains ``adad asdasd adasd'', then `*(ptrptr + 0) == adad', `*(ptrptr + 1) == asdasd' and `*(ptrptr + 2) == adasd'. There is a convention (which argv follows) to then make the next entry null to signify the end of the list of pointers. To further clarify, our memory might end up like this:-

EDIT: sorry if you read the previous version of this post, I typed quite a lot and made a slight mistake. It is corrected now. Also, I thought of a much more simple way to describe it =).