string to char array?

[Kyoji Klyden via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 4 June 2015 at 03:25:24 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Jun 2015 11:59:56 +0000, Kyoji Klyden wrote:
>
>> That's what I found so confusing about the opengl docs. Just 
>> guessing
>> here but char* is a pointer to the first char in the string, 
>> then what
>> exactly is char**? Is it pointing to the first char of the 
>> first string
>> in an array?
>
> it's a pointer to array of pointers to first chars of strings. 
> ;-)

Ohh okay. So this is how the function is able to take multiple 
strings then..
How was I supposed to know it was an array though? Is it because 
it was a string type pointer?

Also does D primarily use explicit length field strings?

Thanks!