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    pointers

    i am a beginner may i know diff between

    int *x
    and
    int* x

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    no diff - compiler ignores spaces - they are just for readability by the programmer
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    You might also want to read what Stroustrup has to say about this whitespace and positioning.
    Quote Originally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
    I get maybe two dozen requests for help with some sort of programming or design problem every day. Most have more sense than to send me hundreds of lines of code. If they do, I ask them to find the smallest example that exhibits the problem and send me that. Mostly, they then find the error themselves. "Finding the smallest program that demonstrates the error" is a powerful debugging tool.
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