Pointers

[mrahsanahmad]

Respected Fellow members, I am not that much expert in C++, however when practicing pointers I encountered following problem.

I am trying to implement the following code obtained form http://www.functionx.com/cpp/Lesson13.htm

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;



int main()

{

int students;

int *ptrStudents;



ptrStudents = &students;

cout << "Number of students: ";

cin >> *ptrStudents;



cout << "\nNumber of students: " << students

<< "\nThat is: " << *ptrStudents << " students.";



cout << "\n\n";

return 0;

}

However, at the underlined line, i am receiving the msg error C2100: illegal indirection

pls help

[helios]

The code compiles and works correctly for me.

[blackcoder41]

The code compiles and works correctly for me.

Same here.

[Albatross]

The code compiles and works correctly for me.

Same here.

Same here.

-Albatross

[m4ster r0shi]

This is what your compiler complains about:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bzf3eha6%28VS.71%29.aspx
That is you try to dereference something that is not a pointer.

But the piece of code here works ok. Maybe when you were pasting/typing it in your compiler editor you missed an asterisk (*) in the declaration of ptrStudents...