C pointer to array of string

Question

How to solve matrix problem where values are set of string. I want to use pointer. Following is the warning:

"warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [-Wincompatible-pointer-types]"

char *country[]={"USA\n","UK\n","Chaina\n","Singapore\n","Scotland\n"};
for (int i =0; i <5; i++) {
     printf("\n CHECK val=%s\n",country[i]);    
}
char *(*cp)[5]=&country[2];
for (int i =0; i <3; i++) {
    printf("\n POINTER  val=%s\n",(*cp)[i]);
}

Answer 1

You get the warning because &country[2] does not return a pointer to an array of five C strings. However, you do not need such a pointer, because a simple char ** pointer will let you create an alias to the middle of an array:

char **cp = &country[2];
for (int i = 0; i < 3 ; i++) {
    printf("\n POINTER  val=%s\n", cp[i]);
}

Demo.

Note: You do not need to have \n characters in both the string literals and the printf format string, unless you want double-spacing.