Operations on arrays using pointers
Before this chapter, the only pointer operation we had used with arrays was assignment. Because we can perform simple arithmetic on pointers—addition and subtraction—these operations conveniently lend themselves to array traversal.
Using pointer arithmetic
An integer value in pointer arithmetic represents the element to which the pointer points. When an integer is added to a pointer, the integer is automatically converted into the size of the pointer element in bytes and added to the pointer. This is equivalent to incrementing an array index. Put another way, incrementing a pointer is equivalent to incrementing the index of an array.
Even though pointers are nearly identical to integers—they are positive, whole numbers that can be added, subtracted, and compared—they are treated slightly differently from integers when pointer arithmetic is performed. The following cases...
