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Question

How to read them??

I.  int (*a)();

II.  int (*a[5])();

III.  int *(*a)();

IV.  int (*a)()

V.  int *(*a)[10]

Answer 1

int (*a)() a is a pointer to a function returning integer

int (*a[5])() a is array of 5 element pointer to a function returning an integer

int *(*a)() a is a pointer to a function returning an pointer to integer

int (*a)() a is pointer to a function returning to an integer

int *(*a)[10] a is pointer of array of 10 elements returning pointer to an integer

Comments

a is a pointer to array of 10 pointers to integer

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use this http://cdecl.org/

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5th one should be

a is a pointer to an array of 10 integer pointers.

Answer 2

Visit  http://cdecl.org/

And find the meaning yourself :)