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Subject: Re: is it possible to point to a slice of an array without malloc or
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Mark Summerfield wrote:

> I'm using getopt_long() to process a command line.
> So after a typical call I might have:
> 
> argv == {"./efind", "-D", "-x", "one", "two", "three", "four"}
> optind == 3
> 
> What I'd like to do (without copying or mallocing and without using a
> VLA)
> is to get a pointer to a slice of argv, specifically,
> {"one", "two", "three", "four"}.
> In Python terms argv[optind:argc].
> 
> Is this possible in C?

Yes.

const char * argv_slice[argc - optind] = &argv[optind];





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