Just to get some things straight

On my way to learning C++, I have bought SAMS Teach Yourself (21 Days) book... and what excellent value it was. I'm on day 9 now, just finished pointers... One thing's unclear. If I got it right, these two mean the same thing?

Code:

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(*pPointer).PublicVar

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Code:

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pPointer->PublicVar

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If so, then I'm on to day nine ;)

Yes, they are the same thing. Using the arrow is just easier to type =).

Z.

I heard that ;) I finally understand pointers (yippie)

The -> operator means a pointer to a member. Go for day 9

say i had a structure with values in it like name, health

eg
struct person
{
char[10] name;
int health;
}

person Me

Me->name = "johnny"

would that apply aswell?

Yes, you can use the -> operator on structs as well, but you can't do what you try to do. You can't assign things to a character array with the = operator, you need to use the strcpy() function...