Comments on: why not Address operator & used with the string variables in scanf function and used for other types??.. https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/why-not-address-operator-used-with-the-string-variables-in-scanf-function-and-used-for-other-types/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Kuldeep Dhanotia https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/why-not-address-operator-used-with-the-string-variables-in-scanf-function-and-used-for-other-types/#comment-366 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 08:09:37 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=1193#comment-366 yeah, mr jaffar thats it ,but i want more comprehension.

]]> By: zaffer https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/why-not-address-operator-used-with-the-string-variables-in-scanf-function-and-used-for-other-types/#comment-364 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:02:27 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=1193#comment-364 the & operator points towards the address. when we declare the string by default the address of the first location is pointed unless we specify the position of char in a string.

]]> By: kamran https://www.emblogic.com/blog/10/why-not-address-operator-used-with-the-string-variables-in-scanf-function-and-used-for-other-types/#comment-360 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:39:40 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=1193#comment-360 Nice question , but very less guys think to that extend.
So to explain if we take an an string of char, and save some information in it, we don;t use & operator because string save only the information of the first address only and after that it is allocated in continuous manner . Hence if we can get the first address rest can be find by incrementing the address as per the variable declaration.

Secondly, the & operator is used to get the address of the variable and since string is collection of continuous memory location, we dont need the & operator.

Hope that help.

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