Arrays of Strings- stumbling over a very basic question

[reko_t]

I thought I had done it before, but now can't find where.

Maybe you had done something like this before:

string addrs[] = { "localhost", "example.com", "etc" };

"type name[]" declaration is fine when you initialize the array in the same statement.

I had always thought, though, that var[] and var * were equivalent. Now I know better

Not quite, although depending on context they can be used interchangeably. For example as a function parameter it doesn't make a difference, except when multidimensional arrays are concerned.