When you declare a pointer yourself manually, you do say char * the variable name because recall that's the same thing that we did earlier but we called it instead string.

当你手动声明一个指针是，你可以说char，*，变量名字,因为那是我早些时候做的事情,但是我们叫它为字符串。

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