why do we use pointer instead directly acessing the data?

Answer Posted / jitendra mishra

As we know pointer shows the address of a particular variable in the memory space.and accessing variable by its name is a bit time consuming because there can have more than one variable of same name but there can not be same address for two different variables.So pointer is more accurate and quick.

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