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Understanding Pointers in C Programming

The document discusses pointers in C including definition, declaration, operators, and initialization. A pointer is a variable that stores the address of another variable. Pointers are declared using a datatype and asterisk. The indirection and address of operators are used with pointers. Pointers are initialized by assigning the address of a variable. An example demonstrates pointer usage.

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Understanding Pointers in C Programming

The document discusses pointers in C including definition, declaration, operators, and initialization. A pointer is a variable that stores the address of another variable. Pointers are declared using a datatype and asterisk. The indirection and address of operators are used with pointers. Pointers are initialized by assigning the address of a variable. An example demonstrates pointer usage.

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Pointer

Definition
Declaration
Operators
Intialization

Definition

It is a special variable which holds address of


another variable of similar type.

Declaration

one can declare a pointer variable by using :

datatype * pointer-variable-name ;

datatype : It is basic datatype ( char , int , float , double )

* : It is an indirection operator (Asterisk) used to declare


pointer

pointer-variable-name : It is a valid name .

; It is delimiter which indicates end of declaration.


Example :

1) int * a;
a is pointer variable of type integer .

2) char * b;
b is pointer variable of type character.

3) double * c;
c is pointer variable of type double

iii) Operators in pointer

There are two operators used in pointers & they are :

i) * ( indirection operator )
It is used to declare pointer variable as well as it returns the
value of the refernced variable.

ii) & ( address of operator)


It is used to return address of a variable
Initialization of pointer

we can initialize a pointer variable as follows

int *a ; // pointer variable declaration


int b=5; // b is integer type variable with address 502

as per definition

a= &b ; // initialization of pointer

printf(“address of b = %p”,a); //502


if i have to access value of b through pointer then

*a= *(&b);
*a = value at (address of b)= 5

printf(“%d”,*a) ; // 5

WAP to show use of pointer


#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int *a; //ptr variable of type int
int b=456; // variable of type int

a=&b; // initialize pointer

printf("\n Address of b =%d",a);


printf("\n value of b=%d", *a);

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