In our first part on pointers, we covered the basics and common pitfalls of pointers in C. If we had to break it down into one sentence, the main principle of pointers is that they are simply data ...

Many “freshman” programmers do not fully understand or appreciate pointers in the C language. When I wanted to learn about pointers— variables that contain a memory address— I took a book on summer ...

The previous two posts (part 1 and part 2) have been exploring the fundamentals of using pointers from the basics of declaring a pointer to the more complex notation of manipulating pointers. An ...

Hi everyone,<BR><BR>I'm continuing on my c coding adventures and I've hit a pointer snag.<BR><BR>I'm basically maintaining a fixed collection of structs that I would like to handle using an array of ...

I'm getting confused here, I want to pass a character array to rfile() and argv[] happens to be an array of character arrays, so argv[i + 1] should return the pointer ...

This is an excellent question. Zero-length arrays, also known as flexible arrays, are used to implement variable-length arrays, primarily in structures. That's a little confusing, so let's look at an ...