Pointers In C

Introduction 

Pointers are used to hold the addresses of the variables.

Above diagram illustrates the working of pointers. There is one variable called no1. We have declared pointer ptr1. ptr1 is storing the address of no1.

Declaration of normal variable and pointer variable.

int no1=11 ;

int *ptr1;

To store the address of variable no1, we have used below syntax.

ptr1 = &no1;

To get the value pointed by ptr1, we can use below syntax.

X = *ptr1;

Simple pointer Example

#include<stdio.h>             

void main()

{

    int no=0;

    int *ptr;

      system("cls");

      printf("\n Enter number:");

      scanf("%d",&no);

      ptr=&no;

      printf("\n %d is stored at %u",no,ptr);

getchar();

}

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