Explain this for me

Question

So I was on brainly the other day. Somebody wanted this code explained:

if(*str1 && *str1 == str2) {
str1++;
str2++;
}

I don't exactly remember the meat of the code, as it wasn't important. Was pretty much as you see.

I do however, remember the if statement. Is the asterisk just part of the var name? Why would they be comparing one variable as if it were 2? What language even is this?

I also don't remember if there was an asterisk before str2.

But can somebody help me understand this?

Answer 1

If this is C++, str1 is a pointer (type unknown) and the asterisk is used to dereference the address str1 holds.

Rough translation:

If the dereferenced value of str1 is not falsey and the value of str1 is equal to str2, increment str1 address (assuming str1 is a pointer to an array) then increment str2 value (assuming str2 is of integral type).