C Programming – Swap function using Pointers , pass by address

To learn basics of pointer & pointer arithmetic concepts, refer tutorial Array and Pointers Arithmetic in C Programming – Examples

Swap is function to exchange or interchange the values of two variables. This function interchange the value of two variable using temporary variable.

#include<stdio.h>

void swap(int *p,int *q)
{
	int t;
	t=*p;
	*p=*q;
	*q=t;
	
}

int main()
{
	int x=100,y=200;

	printf("\nBefore swap value of x= %d value of y is %d\n",x,y);
	swap(&x,&y); //pass by address
	printf("\nAfter swap value of x= %d value of y is %d\n",x,y);

	printf("\n----------------------------------digitalpadm.com\n\n");

return 0;
}

In this code,

Step-1: In main function, x and y are integer type variables are initialized to 100 and 200 respectively,

Step-2: display the values of x and y before swap function call.

Step-3: swap function is called, address of x and y are send as parameter.

Step-4: In swap function, these addresses are placed in pointer variable p and q, i.e pointer variable p holds the address of x variable and pointer variable q holds the address of y variable.

Step-5: In swap, t is temporary variable,

t= *p;  *p gives the value stored at variable x, which is 100 and assigns to variable t.

*p=*q; *q gives the value stored at variable y, which is 200 and assigns to *p , i.e as value for variable x becomes 200

*q=t;  assign the value of t to variable , which is 100 to *q , i,e as value of for y variable becomes 100

step-6: In main function, display the values of x and y again, which is interchanged.

OUTPUT

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