A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C

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A TUTORIAL ON POINTERS AND ARRAYS IN C

by Ted Jensen
Version 1.2 (HTML version)
Feb. 2000

This material is hereby placed in the public domain
Available in various formats via
http://www.netcom.com/~tjensen/ptr/cpoint.htm

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Preface
2. Introduction
   
3. Chapter 1: What is a Pointer?
   
4. Chapter 2: Pointer Types and Arrays.
   
5. Chapter 3: Pointers and Strings
   
6. Chapter 4: More on Strings
   
7. Chapter 5: Pointers and Structures
   
8. Chapter 6: More on Strings and Arrays of Strings
   
9. Chapter 7: More on Multi-Dimensional Arrays
   
10. Chapter 8: Pointers to Arrays
    
11. Chapter 9: Pointers and Dynamic Allocation of Memory
    
12. Chapter 10: Pointers to Functions
    
13. Epilog
    

Welcome to Ted Jensen's Tutorial on
Pointers and Arrays in C

Version 1.2

Last Updated in Feb. 2001
(See Notes at bottom of this page.)This tutorial covers the basics of using pointers and arrays in the C programming language.

• You can Read it Online:
• Download it as a set of HTML pages compressed to a .ZIP File
• Download it as the same set of pages compressed to a .EXE File which unzips itself under MS-DOS or Windows

The tutorial takes up about a dozen web pages. The printed version from either your browser or the text file is going to run around 2500 lines. (About 50 pages at 55 lines/page).

If you have questions or comments you can email me at tjensen@ix.netcom.com.
Notes regarding latest revision 1.2: Feb. 2002

I still program using an MS-DOS 16 bit command line compiler. Victor Volkman of http://www.hal9k.com/cug was kind enough to point out that most PC compilers today are 32 bit systems and as a result sizeof(int) is different on these systems. This version assumes a 32 bit system when discussing sizeof(int). This is made clear in Chapter 1.

I've no longer offer a plain text version of the tutorial. If you feel this is a must, please contact me.