Question

Having a really small problem. This is a pointer program I tried to make for practice, but I’m getting a error in Visual C++.

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "iostream"
#include "string"

using namespace std;

int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
    char *p = "School";
    char c;
    c = ++*p++;
    cout << c << ", " << p << endl;
    cout << p << ", " << ++*p-- << ", " << ++p*++;    //Error C2059: syntax error : ';'
    return 0;
}

Maybe it’s a very silly problem, but I can’t seem to put my finger on it.

Answer 1

The problem is probably this:

++p*++

in the last cout. It looks like you switched the p and the *.

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Now that we’ve put that aside, using multiple expressions with side effects in the same line is a recipe for trouble. What are you trying to do with this?

c = ++*p++;

or this?

cout << p << ", " << ++p-- << ", " << ++p++; //Error C2059: syntax error : ';'


The order of evaluating these statements is undefined.