what is pointer?

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what is pointer?..

Answer / anantha sharma

Pointer is a variable that holds address of a memory location

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what is pointer?..

Answer / sumalatha

Pointer is nothing but it addresses the value.

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what is pointer?..

Answer / umakant gupta

Pointer is a kind of Array which store the Address of
Variable

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what is pointer?..

Answer / shekar

a pointer is a variable that stores the address of another
variable. we can a pointer to any variable ..

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what is pointer?..

Answer / vijay r15

pointer denotes the address of a variable

*denotes its a ptr var
Ex
Int a; //ordin var
Int *p; //ptr var going to hold sum address
P=&a; //p holds the address of a

With thanks and regards,
Vijay r15

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what is pointer?..

Answer / beesani

A pointer is a data type whose value refers directly to
another value stored elsewhere in the computer memory using
its address.

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what is pointer?..

Answer / shashikanth

pointer is a variable which can holds the addrese of another object.

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what is pointer?..

Answer / angel

Pointer is a variable.It may contains the memory address of
the another variable and is declared as the pointer.

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what is pointer?..

Answer / ankush tyagi

Pointers are a special type of variables which are used to
store the address of the another variable....

Four type of pointers are defined...
1.Near pointer
2.Fare pointer
3.Huge pointer
4.File pointer

Syntex //-


data type var_name;
data type *pointer_name;
pointer_name=&var_name;



in both the case data type should be same other wise we can
use the type casting;;;....

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what is pointer?..

Answer / rajendiran

pointer is address of the variable and identified the
variable location. if the pointer used to avoid the memory
wastage....

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