Cant understand the outout

A simple program is:

Code:

//Array Access
#include<stdio.h>
void main()
{
   int n[3][3]={
                 2,4,3,
                 6,8,5,
                 3,5,1
                };
 int i,*ptr;
 ptr=&n;
 for(i=0;i<9;i++)
 {
   printf("%d",*(ptr+i));     //should print 2,6 and 3 as n[0],n[1] and n[2]
 }
}

Now my understanding is a 2 dimensional array is nothing but a collection of one dimensional array within another one dimensional array.So when i am pointing n,the address is held in ptr like n[0][0]..
and *(ptr+i)=ptr[i]=i[ptr]
So ptr[i] should=ptr[0],ptr[1],etc which is invalid as it is not pointing to any particular element like ptr[0][1] or ptr[1][2].So how the output is printed?
Help me in correcting the concept!!
I also know we can access each element of such array if we have already initialised a pointer to an array.But here nothig is done like that!!

First of all it's int main(void) and it returns 0, not void main().

Secondly, ptr is a pointer to an int, which means that it holds the memory address of an integer. n is not an integer. Had you done something like ptr = &n[1][1] that would have been correct.

I suggest you read the tutorials on this site on pointers and arrays before proceeding further.

no,I didnot use &n[1][1].....Because just writing n, means i am giving the address n[0][0] in case of array.

Originally Posted by mistu4u

no,I didnot use &n[1][1].....Because just writing n, means i am giving the address n[0][0] in case of array.

And what type is that? (hint: it's not int*)

Originally Posted by mistu4u

So ptr[i] should=ptr[0],ptr[1],etc which is invalid as it is not pointing to any particular element like ptr[0][1] or ptr[1][2].So how the output is printed?

As claudiu reminded you, ptr is a pointer to an int, not a pointer to an array. What you did was to make it point to the same address as n[0][0]. The elements of n are contiguous, and the elements of each element of n is also contiguous, thus you can iterate over all the ints in n through ptr just by incrementing ptr.

Originally Posted by mistu4u

no,I didnot use &n[1][1].....Because just writing n, means i am giving the address n[0][0] in case of array.

You understand that the address of an array and the address of its first element are the same in value, but you don't understand type. This lack of understanding is the root of the problem.

Thank yo guys for making your points clear......