Indirection Or Deference Operator(*)

Once the pointer variable stores the address of some variable, it can be used to indirectly access the value of the variable whose address is stored in it. For this, simply precede the pointer variable with an indirection operator(*). It is also known as dereference operator as it returns the value of the variable pointed to by the pointer variable.

Program that demonstrates the use of dereference operator(*).

#include<stdio.h>

#include<conio.h>

void main()

{

            int i=5,*ptr;

            clrscr();

            ptr=&i;

            printf(“\n value stored at address of ptr=%d”,*ptr);

            getch();

}

Output:

value stored at address of ptr= 5

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