c programming language

I always think of a pointer as "pointing" to a memory allocation. So if you wanted to have the value to a cell, you could use a pointer. An array is sort of kind of like a list.

Arrays and pointers haave nothing in common. Both have their own advantages and disadvantages.And bothe r mutually exclusive. a pointer is a variable which stores the address of another variable.i.e it points to some other variable. suppose variable 'a' has address "0xAD" then a pointer 'b' to this variable will have value "0xAD" stored in it. 'a' might be an integer storing some no. but 'b' stores its physical address. So 'b' is a pointer to 'a'. An array is a collection of values. i.e u can store 10 integers in an integer array of size 10. just as singular variables, arrays also have datatypes like int,char etc. u can have a pointer to an array, it will store the address of the starting location of the array in the memory.