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Programming and Data Structures
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Programming and Data Structures

by Ashok Kamthane
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
604 pages
21h 39m
English
Pearson India
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284 Programming and Data Structures
9.3 POINTER DECLARATION
Pointer variables can be declared as follows.
Example
in t *x;
floa t * f;
char *y;
1) In the first statement Xx ' is an in te g e r p o in ter and it tells to the compiler that it holds the
address of any integer variable. In the same way ' f ' is a f l o a t p o in te r which stores the
address of any float variable and ' y ' is a ch aracter p o in te r that stores the address of any
character variable.
2) The in d ire c tio n o perator (* ) is also called the deferen ce operator. When a pointer
is dereferenced, the value at that address stored by the pointer
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ISBN: 9789332506343