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Printing Addresses and Accessing Elements of an Array

Printing Addresses and Accessing Elements of an Array

Explore different methods of printing addresses and accessing elements of an array.

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Printing the address of array elements

There are two ways to print the address of array elements:

  • Using the ampersand operator
  • Using simple arithmetic

Using the ampersand operator

We can print the addresses of array elements using the expressions: &a[ 0 ], &a[ 1 ], &a[ 2 ], etc.

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#include<stdio.h>
int main() {
    int a[] = {7, 9, 16, -2, 8};
    // Use ampersand operator for printing address of an array elements
    printf("%u %u %u\n", &a[0], &a[1], &a[2]);
}

Using simple arithmetic

Since the array variable name is a pointer, pointing to the 1st1^{st} ...