Just wanted to know why we use asterisk with return in the following code,,whats the logic of it.
Code:void setname() { cin>>name; } char getname() { return *name; }
Just wanted to know why we use asterisk with return in the following code,,whats the logic of it.
Code:void setname() { cin>>name; } char getname() { return *name; }
Presumably name is a char array? In that context, name by itself would then be taken to represent the address of the first character of array (a char pointer). In order to get a specific character (the first character) at an address you must dereference that address/pointer by using the * operator. It seems likely that getname would actually only return the first character of the name entered by the setname function.
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yeah name is a char array,, it dint only return the firsl character,,it returns the whole string,,
