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Passing arrays to functions You can pass to the function a pointer to an array
by specifying the array's name without an

index.

Return array from a C allows a function to return an array.
function

Pointer to an array You can generate a pointer to the first element of
an array by simply specifying the array name, without
any index.

MultidimensionalArrays
C programming language allows multidimensional arrays. Here is the general form of a
multidimensional array declaration:

type name[size1][size2]...[sizeN];

For example, the following declaration creates a three-dimensional integer array:
int threedim[5][10][4];

Two-dimensionalArrays
The simplest form of multidimensional array is the two-dimensional array. A two-
dimensional array is, in essence, a list of one-dimensional arrays. To declare a two-dimensional
integer array of size [x][y], you would write something as follows:
Where type can be any valid C data type and arrayName will be a valid C identifier. A
two-dimensional array can be considered as a table which will have x number of rows and y

type arrayName [ x ][ y ];
number of columns. A two-dimensional array a, which contains three rows and four columns can
be shown as follows:

Thus, every element in the array a is identified by an element name of the form a[ i ][ j ],
where ‘a’ is the name of the array, and ‘i' and ‘j’ are the subscripts that uniquely identify each
element in ‘a’.

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