What are function pointers used for, and how would I use them?

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Published on 2009-11-18T19:46:21Z Indexed on 2010/03/21 3:01 UTC
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I understand I can use pointers for functions.

Can someone explain why one would use them, and how? Short example code would be very helpful to me.

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