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i found following code to create a two dimensional array at run time if one of the dimension is known..

char (*c)[5];
c=new char[n][5];

first line is pointer to an array of 5 integers but i couldnt undesratnd the second step.

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first line is pointer to an array of 5 integers

Those are char pointers, not integers.

The first line declares an array of unknown number of pointers, each pointer points to a memory block of 5 bytes.

The second line allocates a single block of memory with size n*5. This is much faster and more efficient than allocating each of the n pointers individually.

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