What does "->" do in

[homsta]

We're learning about Link lists and I was just wondering what this does exactly.

[Disch]

It dereferences a pointer and accesses one of its members in one step.

It's like a combination of the * and . operators.

struct MyStruct
{
  int member;
};


MyStruct* ptr = new MyStruct;

// this...
ptr->member = 5;

// is the same as saying this...
(*ptr).member = 5;

[homsta]

Thanks!