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Please tell the difference between * pointer and &pointer

31st Dec 2016, 5:41 AM
KavyaOleti
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The '*' character is used in declarations of pointers. The '&' is for taking the address of something. So, if you go back to the tutorials on pointers, they would be used this way: Ninja n; Enemy *pe = &n; The asterisk says that 'pe' is a pointer to an Enemy and you are taking the 'address of' the Ninja 'n' with '&'. The asterisk is also used for dereferencing a pointer. You can use '*' to dereference the pointer like this: (*pe).attack() which would be the same as n.attack();
31st Dec 2016, 5:55 AM
Ken O'Dell
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thank you
31st Dec 2016, 5:54 AM
KavyaOleti
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Hey I'm new and I really just followed some random people but could you help me out on this kind of stuff
2nd Jan 2017, 6:19 AM
Ed722
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these are two pointer operator the first "&" is address of pointer or pointer variable and second is value of pointer variable
26th Feb 2017, 4:53 PM
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the (*) is used to declare the content of a pointer whiles the (&) is used to know the memory location of the pointer, for a pointer is a variable that takes the memory address of another variable as it value.
8th Apr 2017, 6:10 PM
Enock Akotam Asambo
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hallo kavya sree.
23rd Mar 2017, 4:19 PM
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