Starting Out with C++: Early Objects (9th Edition)
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Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10.5, Problem 10.6CP
Program Plan Intro
Pointer:
Pointer, the name itself references the purpose of the pointer. Pointers point to a location in memory.
- Pointer is a special type of variable to store the address of the memory location, which can be accessed later.
- If an asterisk “*” operator is present before the variable, then that variable is referred as pointer variable.
- It is also called as dereferencing or indirection operator.
- Pointer is just a type of variable that stores the addresses of other variables.
- Using pointers, we can access the address of a variable; the data stored in that variable can be retrieved.
Syntax of pointer variable declaration:
<variable-type> *<variable-name>;
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