What are Pointers? How to use pointers in C++ programming language
What are Pointers? How to use pointers in C++ programming language Last updated on : October 30, 2026 In todays blog post we are going to cover a very important concept in C++ programming language. We are going to discuss about the concept of pointers in C++ program. Let us begin with simple points, just remember one thing that pointers are also variables . But remember the most important point that, though pointers are variables, but these variables are of special type and their main purpose is to hold the memory address of another variables , rather then storing simple values taken from the user as an input. We can use these pointer variables in system level programming , building efficient data structures , and use them in dynamic memory allocation . So, in very simple words we can say that pointers stores the memory address as its values. In pointers we use two unary operators, 1) Address-of operator or And operator ( & ) 2) Dereference or asterisk operator ( *...