The pointer and array may naively appear to be the same but there is some major difference between them.
- In array, the sizeof operator returns the total memory stored by the array.
In pointer, the sizeof operator returns the memory of pointer variable alone. - In array, the & operator will provide the address of the first element.
In pointer, the & operator will provide the address of the pointer variable. - Char array[]=”abc” sets the first four elements in array to ‘a’,’b’,’c’ and ”.
char *pointer=”abc” sets the pointer to the address of the “abc” string(Which may be stored in read-only memory and so it’s unchangeable).
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