Understanding array elements and pointers

Individual elements of an array can be accessed either with array notation or via pointers.

We have alreadyseen how to access the elements ofarrayusing array notation—[and]:

array[0] = 1;  // first element (zeroth offset)
array[1] = 2;
array[2] = 3;
array[3] = 4;
array[4] = 5;  // fifth element (fourth offset)

These statements assign the 1..5values to each element of our array, just as the single initialization statement did when we declaredarray[5].