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Pointer to an Array
It is most likely that you would not understand this section until you are through with the
chapter ‘Pointers’.
Assuming you have some understanding of pointers in C, let us start: An array name is a
constant pointer to the first element of the array. Therefore, in the declaration:
balance is a pointer to &balance[0], which is the address of the first element of the array

double balance[50];

balance. Thus, the following program fragment assigns p as the address of the first element of
balance:

double *p;

double balance[10];

p = balance;

It is legal to use array names as constant pointers, and vice versa. Therefore,
*(balance + 4) is a legitimate way of accessing the data at balance[4].
Once you store the address of the first element in ‘p’, you can access the array elements
using *p, *(p+1), *(p+2), and so on. Given below is the example to show all the concepts
discussed above:

#include <stdio.h>

int main ()

{
/* an array with 5 elements */

double balance[5] = {1000.0, 2.0, 3.4, 17.0, 50.0};
double *p;

int i;

p = balance;

/* output each array element's value */

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