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What is the difference between char *a and char a[]?

Asked In Wipro Subrata Patra (10 years ago)

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sruthi  (10 years ago)

char *a is character pointer and char a[] is char array

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vyshnavi  (9 years ago)

char *a means a is a pointer to an array of elements which are of character type whereas char a[] means a is an array of elements which are of character type.

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B Gurunath  (10 years ago)

Pointer having type for accessing type variable
here the char *a;
a is the pointer type of char it's locate on 1 byte data..
another pointer types are int *a,float *a,void *a(accessing all types of variables through typecasting)
whereas char a[] is an array type charecter

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anchal jain  (10 years ago)

char*p is a variable
but a char a[] is an array

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santhi   (9 years ago)

char *a=it points the character a.it represents address.
char a[]=it points the array of a.it has data.

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santhi   (9 years ago)

char *a is the address of the a value.
char a[] is the array of the a.

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Rohit Baliyan  (9 years ago)

char *a is character pointer where as char a[] is a character array.

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ruchi  (9 years ago)

one is pointer other is array

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Tejaswi Burvilli  (9 years ago)

char *a="hai"; is written then the string is stored in the read only memory location and any modifications in this can be illegal. char []="hai"; then this is also stored in read only memory location but it can be modified.

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niroshkumar   (9 years ago)

char *a--->pointer variable returns character value or pointing to character,

char a[] or char *(a+null) --->character array pointing to null values which is starting address of an array values,,,,(note: array itself is pointing to an address implicitly we can call this as array pointer --->pointing address)

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Arun Kumar  (8 years ago)

char *a is a value of character type at address a and char a[] is an array which stores the values of character type

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NAVEEN  (4 years ago)

char *a is used to store the address of the character a
char a[] is used to create an character array means string

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