11 Pointers Cheat Sheet PDF

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Summary cheat sheet for C++ pointers...

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11 Pointers Cheat Sheet Using the & operator, we can get the memory address of a variable A Pointer however, is a variable that stores the memory address as its value, not the variable value

A variable pointer has the same data type as the variable its pointing to - The type must match Its created using the * operator

To be able to output the value stored at the memory location pointed to, you must dereference the pointer To do this, you add the * operator before the name of the variable storing the mem location when outputting; therefore the mem variable "ptr" would be "*ptr"

You can also modify the pointer's value using either the original variable, or by dereferencing the pointer...