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Indirection Operator:  *

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The indirection operator (*) accesses a value indirectly, through a pointer. The operand must be a pointer value. The result of the operation is the value addressed by the operand; that is, the value at the address to which its operand points. The type of the result is the type that the operand addresses.

For related information, see Address-of Operator.

Example

In the following example, the pointer pSomething is assigned the address of nSomething. The indirection operator then assigns the value of 15 to nSomething. The result is that the variable nSomething now contains the value of 15.

// Example of the indirection operator
int nSomething;
int *pSomething;           // define pointer
pSomething = &nSomething;  // assign address
*pSomething = 15;