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What is the difference between expressions *ptr++ and ++*ptr in C?

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What is the difference between expressions *ptr++ and ++*ptr in C?
posted Mar 29, 2016 by Mohammed Hussain

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*ptr++ and ++*ptr both * and ++ have same precedence but due to associativity of operators from right to left both can be written as
*(ptr++) and ++(*ptr) so
*ptr++ => *(ptr++) => First it wil change its pointing value(address) that is,ptr will point to next value(address) just after old value and then derefence to get value.
++*ptr => ++(*ptr) => it will increment the value pointed by ptr.

answer Mar 29, 2016 by Shivam Kumar Pandey
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