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I’m new to C and I’m wondering what the difference is between these two:
char* name;
struct book *abook;
I know the struct constructs a book, but with the char how come the * is place before the variable name?
TYPE * variableName, TYPE* variableName and TYPE *variableName are all syntactically the same. It’s a matter of notation how you use them.
Personally I prefer the last form. It’s simply because the star operator works on the token to the right of it. In a declaration like
only foo is a pointer but not bar. Therefore it looks more logical to put the star right next to the variable name.