How is this stored in memory and what does [ ] means ? How is it accessed like a 1d array?

#1

char spellings[][10] = {“zero”,“one”,“two”,“three”,“four”,“five”,“six”,“seven”,“eight”,“nine”};
cout << spellings[6] <<" ";

#2

@amitqy
While storing a 2D array, you need to specify the column width which is 10 here while you can ignore the row number which is calculated while initialisation and is equal to the number of elements in array

It this case it is stored as a character 2D array with size = row * column * sizeof(char)
row = 10
column = 10
So 100 * sizeof(char)

#3

all the strings are stored in Ist row of this matrix ?

#4

@amitqy
So there are 10 rows, 1 row for each word
Each row has 10 columns to store characters

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#5

So there are 10 rows, 1 row for each word
Each row has 10 columns to store characters

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