What are the uses of a pointer?

Question :

What are the uses of a pointer?

Pointer is used in the following cases

i) It is used to access array elements

ii) It is used for dynamic memory allocation.

iii) It is used in Call by reference

iv) It is used in data structures like trees, graph, linked list etc.

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