Question

This is a code to initialize a 2D array of chars in C
The array is 3X3 of characters
I’m using Eclipse C/C++ IDE for ubuntu
and when using this function GCC outputs an error like this:

subscripted value is neither array nor pointer nor vector

what does tis error means ,can any one help me please , thanks in advance 🙂

void init(char* ptr)
{
    int i=0;
    int j=0;
    for(i=0;i<3;i++)
    {
        for(j=0;j<3;j++)
        {
            *ptr[i][j]=' ';
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Should be defined as char** ptr the argument of init().