Is this code snippet utilizing a pointer?

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    while (array[i] > max && i < size)
    {
        max = array[i];
        i++;
    }

The code finds the largest value of an array. I'm asking because for this particular assessment, pointers should be used exclusively to access array elements. For the code above, I'm not sure how to access the elements any other way.

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[claudiu]

As previously pointed out, a[i] is equivalent to *(a+i). (i.e. the value contained at the address pointed to by a+i which is a pointer to the first element of the array a[0] incremented by the appropriate offset).

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I'm asking because for this particular assessment, pointers should be used exclusively to access array elements. For the code above, I'm not sure how to access the elements any other way.

I interpret this as an instruction to use a pointer instead of an index to iterate over the elements of the array. For example, given this:

int array[100];
const size_t size = sizeof(array) / sizeof(array[0]);

You might normally write:

size_t i;
for (i = 0; i < size; ++i)
{
    /* access array[i] */
}

But now you would write:

int *i;
int *end;
for (i = array, end = array + size; i != end; ++i)
{
    /* access *i */
}