Declaring a pointer?

[Ciro]

Hi I'm new to the forum, this is a question related to C, I'm finding the below line in a program:

  char *

This is done just before a function. I've been reading the manual but it says nothing about this. What's the point of doing it?

Regards

[Peter87]

It's the return type of the function. It means the function returns a char* (pointer to a char).

[Ciro]

Thanks Peter, that was a program we are supposed to debug, it looks much clearer now.