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Pointers are variables that store the address of another variable.As language feature they are available in several programming languages like, but not limited to : Go C/C++ Ada Pascal C# (available under certain constraints) COBOL FORTRAN To get started with C/C++ pointers , follow thes...

It is basically address of a variable in memory. It allows us to indirectly access a variable. So using pointers we can talk about a variable's address(as well as its value by dereferencing the pointer). They are useful when we want to deal with address of a memory location rather than its value. C...