Thread: pointers and array

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    pointers and array

    hi everybody,
    today i was reading a tutorial on C++ on <http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/pointers/> and there it is wriitten in pointer and array Initialization section:"It is important to indicate that terry contains the value 1702, and not 'h' nor "hello", although 1702 indeed is the address of both of these."
    Now i write a very simple program and compile it with gcc:
    Code:
    #include<iostream>
    using namespace std;
    int main(){
    	char * terry = "hello";
    	cout << terry << endl;
    	
    }
    and its output is : "hello"
    If terry does not contain "hello", the output should have been some address.

    Pls help me to understand the concept.

    Regards,
    arpanm

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    char* is a special case, in that 99.9% of the time it makes more sense to print the string it points to rather than the pointer itself.

    To print the actual pointer itself, try
    Code:
    cout << reinterpret_cast <void*> (terry) << endl;
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