Starting Out With C++: Early Objects (10th Edition)
Starting Out With C++: Early Objects (10th Edition)
10th Edition
ISBN: 9780135235003
Author: Tony Gaddis, Judy Walters, Godfrey Muganda
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 10.12, Problem 10.18CP
Program Plan Intro

Pointer:

  • Pointer is a special type of variable used 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, it is easy to access the address of a variable; the data stored in that variable can be retrieved.

Syntax of pointer variable declaration:

<variable-type> *<variable-name>;

Define the pointers to structures:

Define the pointers to structure is similar to pointer variable declaration.

Example:

//structure declaration

struct student

{

    //variable declaration

    string name;

    //dynamically allocate array

    int *score;

    //variable declaration

    int total;

};

Pointer is the definition to the above defined structure that can be given as follows:

//defining the pointer definition

student *stu1;

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