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copied!<p>First, in C++ you should not use "raw" pointers. </p> <p>Now, about your problem: error message says: "invalid conversion from const char* to int".</p> <pre><code>int andy = "25"; </code></pre> <p><code>"25"</code> is a string literal (with type <code>const char*</code>). You want an integer constant instead:</p> <p>int andy = 25;</p> <p>Now - <code>andy</code> is not a pointer, so you can't apply <code>*</code> operator - and this is the reason of your second error (<code>invalid type argument of unary '*'</code>). </p> <p>Finally, read a book, or a tutorial on these, as you're not using pointers anywhere in your code, you're just blindly using <code>&</code> and <code>*</code> operators.</p> <p>This could be an example of using pointers:</p> <pre><code>int andy = 25; int *andy1 = &andy; // andy1 is the pointer - see star after type declaration // with &andy we're assigning the address of andy variable to it int andyand = *andy1; // star before pointer is dereferencing - reads the value of the memory // address where pointer is pointing to. So, *andy1 evaluates to 25 cout << "hello" << endl << andy << endl << *andy1 << andyand; </code></pre> <p>Oh, everyone noted this except me - unfortunately (for both you and us), there's no <code>import</code> directive in C++ - but <a href="http://isocpp.org/blog/2012/11/modules-update-on-work-in-progress-doug-gregor" rel="nofollow">it should be with us in a few years</a>.</p>

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