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The important part of understanding this is to understand how pointers work.

Let's imagine that we declare a pointer with the ABC content:     const char * c="ABC";

Then "ABC" is somewhere in memory and the pointer is also in memory. If we want to create a pointer to c, it is also possible with the code:

const char **cp = &c;

In this case the cp pointer is also allocated in memory and is pointing to where pointer c is.

For example, if we look at a piece of memory:

Endereço
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30
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 A |  B |  C |    | 21 |    | 25 |    |    |
Conteúdo

cp está no endereço 27 e aponta para o endereço 25.
c está no endereço 25 e aponta para o endereço 21.
no endereço 21, temos a string ABC.

Imagine you have multiple text pointers

char *lang_pt[] = {"rato", "teclado", "monitor"};
char *lang_en[] = {"mouse", "keyboard", "screen"};

and you want to make a single pointer that points to the language the user chose

char **lang_user;
if (rand() % 2) lang_user = lang_pt;
else            lang_user = lang_en;

printf("2. %s\n", lang_user[1]); // teclado???? keyboard???

Quoting Stack Overflow:

• list of characters (one word): char * word;
• sentence (a list of words): char ** sentence;
• monologue (list of phrases): char *** monologue;

And so on ...

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