Just now starting on pointers , and I has questionz.


Code:
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{ 
  int x;            // A normal integer
  int *p;           // A pointer to an integer

  p = &x;           // Read it, "assign the address of x to p"
  cin>> x;          // Put a value in x, we could also use *p here
  cin.ignore();
  cout<< *p <<"\n"; // Note the use of the * to get the value
  cin.get();
}

Ok, I understand in the beginning int *p is declaring the pointer p, and the statement after that p = &x, is stating that the variable, not the pointer, p is holding the address for the variable x. Then when the cout statement comes up, it is outputting the value of x by checking the address to see what is stored there.....correct? I probably made that alot more difficult than it should've been.