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In implementing data structures it is often convenient to use additional variables to point to the data items. Such variables are called pointers. In abstract, a pointer is a link to a data item.

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© 1991 Carl Bamford and Paul Curran

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Bamford, C., Curran, P. (1991). Data Structures II. In: Data Structures, Files and Databases. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12615-6_3

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