Question

How is Pointer Arithmetic work on Character Pointer?

Answer 1

If we increment the character pointer by 1 then it will point to the address which will be just 1 byte more to the current pointing address.  Let us see an example where pcData is a character pointer and we performing an arithmetic operation on it.

char *pcData =NULL;

 

When we increment the pcData then it points to the next character location without impacting the stored data. The size of the character is 1 byte that’s why pointer moves only 1 byte of memory. .

pcData++;