character pointers
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5231334/character-pointers">character pointers</a>  </p>
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<p>Is it not that <code>'a'</code> is decoded to its ascii code value and the following statement becomes equivalent to <code>char *pch= 197</code>. Now <code>pch</code> will point to the char in address location 197  </p>

<pre><code>char *pch='a';   //if not then what does this statement mean
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