title Indirection on Array Types | Microsoft Docs ms.custom ms.date 11/04/2016 ms.technology cpp-language ms.topic language-reference dev_langs C++ helpviewer_keywords arrays [C++], indirection on type indirection operator [C++], array types ms.assetid 4adc3840-68d1-4602-9db2-8809d4388279 author mikeblome ms.author mblome ms.workload cplusplus Indirection on Array Types Use of the indirection operator (*) on an n-dimensional array type yields an n-1 dimensional array. If n is 1, a scalar (or array element) is yielded. See also Arrays