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This document discusses pointers in C programming. It defines a pointer as a variable that stores the address of another variable. It explains the "&" operator, which returns the address of a variable, and the "*" operator, which accesses the value at a given address. Examples are provided to demonstrate declaring pointers, assigning addresses to pointers, and accessing variable values through pointers. The document also includes code samples showing pointer usage and a program that prints all permutations of a string using pointers.

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Practical No 6

This document discusses pointers in C programming. It defines a pointer as a variable that stores the address of another variable. It explains the "&" operator, which returns the address of a variable, and the "*" operator, which accesses the value at a given address. Examples are provided to demonstrate declaring pointers, assigning addresses to pointers, and accessing variable values through pointers. The document also includes code samples showing pointer usage and a program that prints all permutations of a string using pointers.

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Practical no.

7
To study and perform program based on the use of Pointers.

Theory:
A pointer is a variable that stores the address of another variable. Unlike other
variables that hold values of a certain type, pointer holds the address of a
variable. For example, an integer variable holds (or you can say stores) an
integer value, however an integer pointer holds the address of a integer variable.
In this practical, we will discuss pointers in C programming with the help of
examples.

C Pointers – Operators that are used with Pointers

Lets discuss the operators & and * that are used with Pointers in C.

“Address of”(&) Operator

We have already seen in the first example that we can display the address of a variable using
ampersand sign. I have used &num to access the address of variable num. The & operator is
also known as “Address of” Operator.

printf("Address of var is: %p", &num);

Point to note: %p is a format specifier which is used for displaying the address in hex format.
Now that you know how to get the address of a variable but how to store that address in some
other variable? That’s where pointers comes into picture. As mentioned in the beginning of this
guide, pointers in C programming are used for holding the address of another variables.

Pointer is just like another variable, the main difference is that it stores address of another
variable rather than a value.

“Value at Address”(*) Operator

The * Operator is also known as Value at address operator.

How to declare a pointer?

int *p1 /*Pointer to an integer variable*/

double *p2 /*Pointer to a variable of data type double*/

char *p3 /*Pointer to a character variable*/

float *p4 /*pointer to a float variable*/


The above are the few examples of pointer declarations. If you need a pointer to store the
address of integer variable then the data type of the pointer should be int. Same case is with
the other data types.

By using * operator we can access the value of a variable through a pointer.


For example:

double a = 10;

double *p;

p = &a;

*p would give us the value of the variable a. The following statement would display 10 as
output.

printf("%d", *p);

Similarly if we assign a value to *pointer like this:

*p = 200;

It would change the value of variable a. The statement above will change the value of a from 10
to 200.

/*C program to demonstrate example of double pointer (pointer


to pointer).*/
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int a; //integer variable
int *p1; //pointer to an integer
int **p2; //pointer to an integer pointer

p1=&a; //assign address of a


p2=&p1; //assign address of p1

a=100; //assign 100 to a

//access the value of a using p1 and p2


printf("\nValue of a (using p1): %d",*p1);
printf("\nValue of a (using p2): %d",**p2);
//change the value of a using p1
*p1=200;
printf("\nValue of a: %d",*p1);
//change the value of a using p2
**p2=200;
printf("\nValue of a: %d",**p2);

return 0;
}

Write a program in C to print all permutations of a given string using pointers.

C Code:
#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

void changePosition(char *ch1, char *ch2)

char tmp;

tmp = *ch1;

*ch1 = *ch2;

*ch2 = tmp;

void charPermu(char *cht, int stno, int endno)

int i;

if (stno == endno)

printf("%s ", cht);

else

{
for (i = stno; i <= endno; i++)

changePosition((cht+stno), (cht+i));

charPermu(cht, stno+1, endno);

changePosition((cht+stno), (cht+i));

int main()

char str[] = "abcd";

printf("\n\n Pointer : Generate permutations of a given


string :\n");

printf("---------------------------------------------------
-----\n");

int n = strlen(str);

printf(" The permutations of the string are : \n");

charPermu(str, 0, n-1);

printf("\n\n");

return 0;

OUTPUT:

EXAMPLE PROGRAM FOR C STRUCTURE USING POINTER:


In this program, “record1” is normal structure variable
and “ptr” is pointer structure variable. As you know, Dot(.)
operator is used to access the data using normal structure
variable and arrow(->) is used to access data using pointer
variable.
#include <stdio.h>

#include <string.h>

struct student

int id;

char name[30];

float percentage;

};

int main()

int i;

struct student record1 = {1, "Raju", 90.5};

struct student *ptr;

ptr = &record1;

printf("Records of STUDENT1: \n");

printf(" Id is: %d \n", ptr->id);

printf(" Name is: %s \n", ptr->name);

printf(" Percentage is: %f \n\n", ptr->percentage);

return 0;

}
OUTPUT:

Conclusion:

In this way we had studied and perform program based on


pointers.

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