whats the difference of

  in which SampleClass is a class.

further, what is the difference of

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a journey of a thousand miles is started by taking the first step -chinese proverb

Kerby

SampleClass object creates an object of "SampleClass" type
SampleClass *object creates a POINTER to an object of "SampleClass" type

object.somefunction() accesses "somefunction" within the object "object"
object->somefunction() dereferences a pointer to "object" to access "somefunction"

For you I think the "journey of a thousand miles" should start with the "first step" of carefully reading a few basic text books :-)

Read up on Objects and Pointers

Hope this helps

Alan

 If you come from a C background think of it this way

 object->somefuntion();

 is the same as

 (*object).somefunction();

 this is, -> dereferences the pointer on the right and then calls it's somefunction() method.

Regards,
Meredith Shaebanyan

Which is what I said!

Alan