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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."

- Mother Teresa

Declare the following statement?
"A pointer to an array of three chars".

[A].	`char *ptr[3]();`	[B].	`char (ptr)[3];`
[C].	`char (*ptr[3])();`	[D].	`char (*ptr)[3];`

Answer: Option D

Explanation:

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Guest said: (Sat, Jul 30, 2011 03:35:04 PM)

An array of 3 characters is declares as a pointer this way only.

Anjali said: (Wed, Aug 3, 2011 11:06:16 PM)

Here we should have 3 characters only but not pointers. To declare any pointer we can have the syntax like char a[3]. So here a is an array which can contain 3 characters. We are asked for pointer to array of 3 characters. So to declare it char (*ptr) [3] is the correct one. Where ptr is a pointer to an array which contains 3.

Ganesh said: (Thu, Aug 30, 2012 08:57:04 AM)

Here we should have 3 characters only but not pointers. To declare any pointer we can have the syntax like char a[3]. So here a is an array which can contain 3 characters. We are asked for pointer to array of 3 characters. So to declare it char (*ptr) [3] is the correct one. Where ptr is a pointer to an array which contains 3.

Dishendra said: (Mon, Jun 3, 2013 11:42:13 AM)

See if there was no star symbol then it would have been, array of 3 character. Now since since star is within parenthesis that operation is applied to whole array. So, it is pointer to array of 3 characters.