Can one declare and initialize a pointer in one statement?

[Zooby]

Hello, I am teaching myself C programming, and I have a question concerning the declaration and initialization of pointers.

Essentially, can one declare and initialize a pointer in one statement, like so?

int var;
int *p_var = &var;

I mean for the aforementioned to be the same as:

int var, *p_var;
p_var = &var;

[frankie]

This is legal and is called Initialized variable declaration.
This is a very basic thing, you may want read a tutorial.

[Zooby]

Thank you for the response.

I know it's pretty basic, and I know you can initialize variables when you declare them; it was just that, I was just introduced to pointers, and I was worried that in my example, it might change the value of var rather than p_var. Since you would do p_var=&var instead of *p_var=&var, but when you declare a pointer, you have the asterisk.