Data Structures Question:

What is significance of ” * ” ?

Answers:

Answer #1The symbol “*” tells the computer that you are declaring a pointer.
Actually it depends on context.
In a statement like int *ptr; the ‘*’ tells that you are declaring a pointer.
In a statement like int i = *ptr; it tells that you want to assign value pointed to by ptr to variable i.

Answer #2The symbol “*” is also called as Indirection Operator/ Dereferencing Operator.

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