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[jimjake]

The book I am using refers to CHAR, and I understand this pretty well.
But there is code in the book the states CHAR* and no where do I find
An explanation for this, can you help…… jim

 

[Cagliostro]

CHAR* means pointer to CHAR

Ion Filipski

 

[timmay3141]

It is commonly used for strings. When you use a string literal for something like cout << "asdf", it sees the string as only a pointer to the first character. cout then goes through the string until it sees a \0 character, which is automatically added after the f, and once it sees that it knows it has reached the end of the string.

 

[A1METALHEAD]

look in your book's index for pointers, or google it

 

[jimjake]

Thank you I understand now