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C++ Symbol Question... ' -> '

Hi guys. I know this is probably a laughable question but I'm wondering with the symbol -> means in the context of a class. The example I can give is from the text book I'm reading at the moment: 'Mfc Programming with Visual c++'.

CClient *pClient;



pClient = new CClient;

pClient->Input();

If you need to know more about the example please let me know and I will post the whole code as that's just selected lines.

I guess that it means that the function 'input()' should act on pClient?

Sorry if this is really simple but googling '->' obviously comes up with nothing and I don't know what it would be called?

Thanks in advance.

It dereferences a pointer in an object context. pClient is a pointer to an object that has an Input () member function. Your statement executes that one, rather than an Input () member of some other class.

Cheers for the reply. It's times like this I wish I practised my c++ all year round and not just in the two months before assignments are in!!

So pClient is a pointer to an object. The object is of type CClient? Would that mean that Input() is a member function of the class CClient?

That would be correct.

Brilliant, thanks a lot!