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In C, j[foo] is the same as *(j + foo).  foo alone is the address of the 
beginning of the array foo[].  When you add an int to an address, you 
actually are doing pointer math, thus you're saying give me the 2 entry 
in the array foo[].  That is:

take the address of the beginning of the array: foo

add 2 to it to give me the address of the 3rd item in the array (0,1,2)

The * says, give me the value found at that address point, which happens 
to be the string "heck" in the array.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft


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