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Hey!! Can anyone please say me what is ment by a pointer in detail???
Please send! !
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A moveable object which moves around in order to make actions happen
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Short answer and analogy: a pointer is like a shortcut in your PC's desktop, which points to an actual file (doc, xls, exe, txt...)
Long answer: every variable has a memory address and holds a value. A pointer contains as value the memory address of another variable.
For a nice diagram representation, please visit https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/17898/whats-a-nice-explanation-for-pointers