Use of new, .ptr and in Operator with Pointers
You will learn the use of keywords with pointers, .ptr property of arrays, and in operator of associative arrays in this lesson.
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Returning a pointer using new
new, which we have been using only for constructing class objects can be used with other types as well: structs, arrays, and fundamental types. The variables that are constructed by new are called dynamic variables.
new first allocates space from the memory for the variable and then constructs the variable in that space. The variable itself does not have a symbolic name in the compiled program; it will be accessed through the reference that is returned by new.
The reference that new returns is a different kind depending on the type of the variable:
- For class objects, it is a class