how do you pass on a dubble array like this char array[2] [80] = {{"text 1"}, {"text2}} ; function_text(char) ; // <= I want to pass the whole array to this function and no pointers pls thanx in advance for any help...

thanx for the quick answer but I forgot to say something :

what if I don''t know how big the array will be?

it could also be :

char array[2] [80] = {{"text 1"}, {"text2}, {"text 3"}} ;

again thanx in advance for any replies

If you don''t know the sizes, you''ll have to use pointers. Or a language which is a little fancier about its array implementation, such as Java. Or perhaps some sort of library. Sorry, I don''t remember how to do it in C++, or C for that matter, offhand - I pretty much never had to deal with such arrays in my code.

In that last example, you''ll need to use [3][80] rather than [2][80], of course.

It''s spelled "double", and you''re talking about a 2-dimensional array, not a "double array" which one would normally understand to mean an array of doubles (double-precision floating-point values).

if it''s an array of null terminated strings you could do this:

func(const char* array[], int size){for(int i=0; i<size; i++){cout << array;}} 

or else i think you have to pass both dimensions to the function?