Passing Pointers through various functions

Hello, in my assignment I am supposed to use pointers to pass the data throughout the different functions. I am having trouble in figuring out how to do the function calls and prototypes to where it works correctly with my programs pointers.
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#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <cctype>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;

//Function Prototypes//
void charString(); //Gets the length of the string lines.
string reverseString(string*, string*, string*); //Reverses the String lines.
//------------------//

int main()
{
	string line01, line02, line03;
	string *line1 = &line01; //
	string *line2 = &line02; //Copies pointers to similar variables
	string *line3 = &line03; //
	
	charString(); //Get length of string lines.
	reverseString(line1, line2, line3); //Reverse the strings.
	
	return 0;	
}

void charString()
{
	ifstream inFile; 

	inFile.open("testdata.txt"); //Opens test .txt file

	string line01, line02, line03; //Holds the overall string lines.
	int length1, length2, length3; //Hold the length of the strings

		getline(inFile, line01);	//
		getline(inFile, line02);	//Gets the lines of the .txt file.
		getline(inFile, line03);	//
	
	
	//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
		for(int i = 0; i != line01.length(); i++) //Determines isalpha string length for line 1
   		 {
    		if(isalpha(line01[i]))
    		{
    			length1++;
			}
		}
	
	 	for(int i = 0; i != line02.length(); i++) //Determines isalpha string length for line 2
   		 {
    		if(isalpha(line02[i]))
    		{
    			length2++;
			}
		}
	
		 for(int i = 0; i != line03.length(); i++) //Determines isalpha string length for line 3
    	{
    		if(isalpha(line03[i]))
    		{
    			length3++;
			}
		}
	//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//
	

	cout << "The length of line 1: " << length1 << endl; //
	cout << "The length of line 2: " << length2 << endl; //outputs the length of lines 1-3 of the .txt file
	cout << "The length of line 3: " << length3 << endl; //
}


	string reverseString(string *line1, string *line2, string *line3)
	{
		cout << "Here is the String the correct way." << endl;
		cout << *line1 << endl << *line2 << endl << *line3 << endl;
		cout << "Here is the String backwards." << endl;
		cout << "Nothing here yet :/" << endl;
	} 


Thanks for any help that you can give!
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