Printing pointer's address

[toomanyquestions]

My professor has asked us to create a program that uses a pointer and will print the value of the pointer and the address of the variable. I've written what I think will give the correct address but I don't know how to check it and make sure its giving me the correct address. Is the following program giving me the address of the value a in the pointer?

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
	int a = 5; //Decaring a value for a
	int *B;  //Declaring the pointer

	B = &a;

	cout << a <<" is the value of the variable."<<endl;
	cout << B <<" is the address of the variable.";
	
	
	return 0;
}

[Handy Andy]

Hello toomanyquestions,

Welcome to the forum.

Yes your code is correct. Unfortunately there is know way to know the address of a variable until space is set aside for variable.

Try running the code below and see what is printed out.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
	int a = 5; //Declaring a value for a
	int *B;  //Declaring the pointer

	B = &a;

	cout << a <<" is the value of the variable a."<<endl;
        cout << &a << " is the address of a.\n\n";
	cout << B <<" is the address of the variable.\n";
	cout << *B <<" is the value of B.\n";
	
	return 0;
}

This would be about the only way to check an address of a variable.

Any questions let me know.

Hope that helps,

Andy
Edit:

[toomanyquestions]

Thanks so much Andy for the help! I'm guessing what he wanted was a little more similar to yours. I believe when I put B = &a it is a little excessive. I just fixed it to be:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main(){
	int a = 5; //Decaring a value for a
		
	cout << a <<" is the value of a.\n\n"<<endl;
	cout << &a <<" is the address of a.";
		
	return 0;
}

This is working, its giving me the value and an address of the value.

[Handy Andy]

Hello toomanyquestions,

Glad it worked out for you. What I showed you is more than you need, but it helps explain what is happening. What you came up with works fine and is a shorter way of saying the same thing. Good work.

If yo are finished here put the green check on the subject to let everyone know you have found your answer.

Andy