References

All the C and C++ books listed in Chapters 2 and 3 treat arrays and strings quite adequately.

A bit of history:

Ritchie, D. M., "Variable-Size Arrays in C", Journal of C Language Translation , September 1990 ; also http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/vararray.pdf .

The following papers discuss topics from the programmer's point of view:

Marcok, Z., "Dynamic Arrays with Expression Templates", C/C++ Users Journal , July 1998 .

Meyers, R., "The New C: Why Variable Length Arrays?", C/C++ Users Journal , October 2001 .

Saks, D., "Stepping Up to C++ - Dynamic Arrays", C/C++ Users Journal , November 1992 .

Web-based material concerning arrays:

"C On-line Tutorial", http://cplus.about.com/library/blctut.htm .

"C++ On-line Tutorial", http://cplus.about.com/library/blcplustut.htm .

"Ted Jensen's Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C", http://home.netcom.com/ ^~ tjensen/ptr/ cpoint .htm .

"RedHat Course: Pointers and Arrays in C", http://www.redhat.com/training/elearning/catalog/courses/c_pointers.html .

Summit, S., "Pointers and Arrays", http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/s6.html .