Data Structures Interview Questions and Answers
Ques 31. What is significance of ? * ? ?
The symbol ?*? tells the computer that you are declaring a pointer.
Actually it depends on context.
In a statement like int *ptr; the ?*? tells that you are declaring a pointer.
In a statement like int i = *ptr; it tells that you want to assign value pointed to by ptr to variable i.
The symbol ?*? is also called as Indirection Operator/ Dereferencing Operator.
Ques 32. Why do we Use a Multidimensional Array?
A multidimensional array can be useful to organize subgroups of data within an array. In addition to organizing data stored in elements of an array, a multidimensional array can store memory addresses of data in a pointer array and an array of pointers.
Multidimensional arrays are used to store information in a matrix form.
e.g. a railway timetable, schedule cannot be stored as a single dimensional array.
One can use a 3-D array for storing height, width and length of each room on each floor of a building.
Ques 33. How do you assign an address to an element of a pointer array ?
We can assign a memory address to an element of a pointer array by using the address operator, which is the ampersand (&), in an assignment statement such as ptemployee[0] = &projects[2];
Ques 34. Run Time Memory Allocation is known as ?
Allocating memory at runtime is called a dynamically allocating memory. In this, you dynamically allocate memory by using the new operator when declaring the array, for example : int grades[] = new int[10];
Ques 35. What method is used to place a value onto the top of a stack?
push() method, Push is the direction that data is being added to the stack. push() member method places a value onto the top of a stack.
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