字符指针

Question

is it like char *pch='a'; means pch holds value 97 and is a pointer to another char whereas char *pch="avinash"; means that pch holds the pointer pointing to a of avinash.

Answer 1

char *pch='a'; shouldn't compile on any standard-compliant compiler.

char* pch = "absljsdf" is deprecated. you must use const .

const char * pcch = "abdsfkjsdf"; means that pcch points to the first character in "abdsfkjdf", but you can't modify the contents of the string with that pointer. hth

Answer 2

char *pch="avinash"; is a string literal and what you said is right. but the first one is a compile error. did you try compiling them and seeing the values?

Answer 3

No.

char * pch='a';

means that the address of pch is the value of 'a' which most likely points to an invalid part of the memory :-). If you want to set pch to point to 'a' you need to first allocate memory and then set

*pch = 'a';

for instance.