Dereferencing a pointer yields the object to which the pointer points. We can assign to that object by assigning to the result of the dereference

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Dereferencing a pointer yields the object to which the pointer points. We can assign to that object by assigning to the result of the dereference.

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2022-07-03

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*p = 0; // * yields the object; we assign a new value to ival through p
cout << *p; // prints 0

When we assign to *p, we are assigning to the object to which p points.

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