char* don't hold the memory address

I have been teaching myself C and C++ and am somewhat familiar with pointers. My main question is Does const char* actually store a memory address? This question arose when working with strings. How can you assign a string to what is supposed to hold a memory address?

#include <iostream>    int main(void) {      const char* x = "Hello";      std::cout << x << std::endl; // Returns Hello      std::cout << &x << std::endl; // Returns the actual address  }  

To my knowledge the above code should print a memory address, so what actually is a char*?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65527035/char-dont-hold-the-memory-address January 01, 2021 at 11:02AM