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Filip Cvetko (48)
What does (->) does? Please with code example

Akshit (196)
As we use . operator with class or structure or any other user defined data type.

-> operator is used with pointer of those data types

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struct str{
   int a;
};

//in main
str aa;
aa.a=5;
str *p=&aa;
p->a=5;
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Catfish4 (666)
Following Akshit's example, it basically means:

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(*p).a = 5;
p->a = 5; // less to write and clearer

MikeyBoy (5631)
What does (->) does? Please with code example

Oh, come on! You could look this up in seconds in any textbook!
keskiverto (10402)
Accessing member of object via pointer to that object is one place, but C++11 has also suffix return type syntax, where -> is used.
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