Question

I am still trying to understand about doublepointers.

I do know how double pointers are usually used in most cases like

void foo(char **ptr)
{
 // blah
}

int main(void)
{
    char *ptr;
    foo(&ptr);
}

However i have no idea what one does differently than the other

int main(int argc, char **argv) //Double pointer

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) // Single

Answer 1

When used as a parameter to a function, an array designator [] is exactly the same as a pointer. The two declarations you have for main are in fact identical.

There are times when the two different syntaxes mean different things, but this isn’t one of them.

In this case it means you have an array of pointers. Each pointer points to an array of characters. argv[0] is a pointer to the first char* string, argv[1] is a pointer to the second char* string, etc.