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CSE1303 Computer Science
Semester 2, 2003
Part B
Lecture B06 notes: Pointers, characters and grouping

In this lecture

• Pointers
  • Value that is the address of another value
  • Essentially just integers
• Pointer arithmetic
• Pointers and arrays
  • Elements stored sequentially
• Structures
  • Elements stored sequentially
  • Elements accessed as offset from start of structure
• Characters
  • Stored internally as small integers (of type char) using ASCII.
• Strings
  • Usually stored in an array of char
  • Start of string indicated by pointer to first character
  • End of string indicated with end-of-string character '\0'

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