Question

I have many times come across the statement char* ch = "hello";.

I understand that char* ch tells that ch is a pointer towards a char. But what does assigning hello to ch mean ?

I cannot undestand this ? please help.

Answer 1

It means ch is a pointer to a character. When you do char* ch = "hello" ch will be pointing to the first character i.e. character h. To point to the second character, you can do ch + 1 or ch[1]. Note that ideally the type of ch should have been const char* as you can not write to the pointed memory location.