Basic Program for Pointers

Few important points to remember:

• * is used to access the value stored in the pointer variable.
• & is used to store the address of a given variable.

Here is the C language tutorial on Pointers in C → Pointers in C

Below is a simple program on pointer.

int *p; is a pointer variable declaration where p is a pointer to an int variable i.e. it stores the location of an integer.

%x is a format specifier to print hexadecimal value. It is usually used to print the location.

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    printf("\n\n\t\tStudytonight - Best place to learn\n\n\n");
    int var = 24;   // actual variable declaration
    int *p;

    p = &var;   // storing address of int variable var in pointer p

    printf("\n\nAddress of var variable is: %x \n\n", &var);

    // address stored in pointer variable
    printf("\n\nAddress stored in pointer variable p is: %x", p);

    // access the value using the pointer variable
    printf("\n\nValue of var variable or the value stored at address p is   %d ", *p);

    printf("\n\n\t\t\tCoding is Fun !\n\n\n");
    return 0;
}

Output: