pointer to a string

[decoderx]

char *p="Hello",*l="cello";
*p=*k;//or p[0]='c';it crashes again
cout<<p;
the program rashes why??
I have some idea but not very clear about it...
some one please explain the concept
sorry understood my mistake:
p is a pointer defined to point to a string constant we can always make it to point to another string constant but if we try to change the individual elements result is undefined..

[hamsterman]

String literals ("hello" in this case) are not of type char*, but const char*. Line p = "Hello" doesn't allocate anything, it just makes p point to a string already somewhere in the memory. If you want to modify it, copy it either using new and strcpy or simply an std::string.