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    copied!<p>I'm trying to return a pointer to a 2d char array (mainly just for practice using pointers since I don't understand them too well yet).</p> <p><strong>When I compile this I get the message:</strong></p> <pre><code>Maze Game.cpp(32): error C2440: 'initializing' : cannot convert from 'char (*)[8]' to 'char **' </code></pre> <p><strong>Line 32 is:</strong></p> <pre><code>char** acBoard = new char[8][8]; </code></pre> <p><strong>Here is the source code:</strong></p> <pre><code>#include "stdafx.h" #include &lt;iostream&gt; char** createGrid(); int main() { using namespace std; char** pBoard = createGrid(); char gameBoard[8][8]; for(int row = 0; row &lt; 8; row++) { int count = 0; for(int col = 0; col &lt; 8; col++) { char temp = **pBoard + count; gameBoard[row][col] = temp; cout &lt;&lt; gameBoard[row][col]; } cout &lt;&lt; endl; } delete pBoard; pBoard = 0; return 0; } char** createGrid() { char** acBoard = new char[8][8]; //Set wall positions acBoard[1][6] = 'X'; acBoard[1][7] = 'X'; acBoard[3][4] = 'X'; acBoard[3][6] = 'X'; acBoard[3][8] = 'X'; acBoard[4][1] = 'X'; acBoard[4][3] = 'X'; acBoard[4][4] = 'X'; acBoard[4][5] = 'X'; acBoard[4][6] = 'X'; acBoard[4][7] = 'X'; acBoard[5][1] = 'X'; acBoard[5][3] = 'X'; acBoard[5][4] = 'X'; acBoard[5][8] = 'X'; acBoard[6][1] = 'X'; acBoard[6][2] = 'X'; acBoard[6][3] = 'X'; acBoard[6][6] = 'X'; acBoard[6][8] = 'X'; acBoard[7][1] = 'X'; acBoard[7][5] = 'X'; acBoard[7][6] = 'X'; acBoard[7][8] = 'X'; acBoard[8][3] = 'X'; acBoard[8][5] = 'X'; acBoard[8][6] = 'X'; acBoard[8][7] = 'X'; acBoard[8][8] = 'X'; acBoard[1][8] = 'N'; acBoard[7][7] = 'T'; acBoard[5][2] = 'W'; acBoard[2][2] = '$'; return acBoard; } </code></pre> <p><strong>Can anyone explain to me why this is happening?</strong></p>
 

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