6. Topic 5 - Pointers, Arrays and Strings

Contents:

• 6.1. Basics of pointers
  • 6.1.1. Two pointer operators
  • 6.1.2. Pointer Examples
  • 6.1.3. Pointers in function arguments
  • 6.1.4. Casts with pointers
  • 6.1.5. Pointer arithmetic
• 6.2. Arrays
  • 6.2.1. Declaring arrays
  • 6.2.2. An Array Example
  • 6.2.3. Pointers and Arrays
  • 6.2.4. Passing Arrays to Functions
• 6.3. Multi-dimensional arrays
  • 6.3.1. A 2 dimensional array
  • 6.3.2. A 3 dimensional array
• 6.4. Strings
  • 6.4.1. Initializing a string
  • 6.4.2. String Example
  • 6.4.3. Command Line Arguments
• 6.5. The string library
  • 6.5.1. String Manipulations
  • 6.5.2. Example Use of strtod and strtol
  • 6.5.3. Useful Character Tests
• 6.6. Dangers of Buffer overflows
• 6.7. String Example - ReadLine
• 6.8. A trick to describe complex data types
• 6.9. Dynamic memory allocation
  • 6.9.1. Dynamically Allocating a Multi-dimensional Array
  • 6.9.2. Allocating More Memory
• 6.10. Pointers to Functions
  • 6.10.1. Example - Arbitrary string sorting