Pointer in FB

[PeterHu]

Greetings to everybody!

Just a newbie to FB,and curious can pointer in FB do everything that c does?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Peter

[PeterHu]

And,can anybody here guide me what's the better(structural way) to learn FB under Windows,from 0 to intermediate level ?Thanks again.

[Vortex]

Hello,

Why not to start by studying the latest FreeBASIC manual?

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FB-manual-1.09.0.chm

[deltarho[1859]]

can pointer in FB do everything that c does?

Not able to answer that.

However, here are two excellent tutorials on FB pointers.

Pointer Data Type
Pointers and Composite Types

[angros47]

Just a newbie to FB,and curious can pointer in FB do everything that c does?

Basically, yes, because they work in the same way.
The main difference with C is about arrays pointers (since in FreeBasic they point to the descriptor, not to the actual data) and string pointers (since strings are managed differently in FreeBasic and in C)
There are simple workarounds in both cases, like using a pointer to the first element of the array or to the first character of a string, and also, FreeBasic can use c-like arrays or strings (with zstring PTR)

[PeterHu]

Many thanks to all of you!

[fxm]

... can pointer in FB do everything that c does?

You can look in the Comparison of C/C++ and FreeBASIC documentation page some types of syntaxe comparisons relating to pointers.