C++ pointer doubt

1

How can I point to the first character of variable declared using string data type, using pointer?

Eg.
String a=“abcd”;
cout<<*a;

Prints the whole string

2

I think you want to know about JAVA?
But in C++, you have to declare as char *a=“abcd”;

3

Pointers would have worked fine if you have used char datatype instead of string.

char a[] = “abc”;
cout << *a << endl;

For string, use iterators:

string a = “abc”;
cout << *a.begin() << endl;

4

Thank you for your reply.