Week 1: Introduction - Elementary Data and Control Structures in C (63)

Strings

"String" is a special word for an array of characters

end-of-string is denoted by '\0' (of type char and always implemented as 0)

Example:

If a character array s[11] contains the string "hello", this is how it would look in memory:

  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
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| h | e | l | l | o | \0|   |   |   |   |   |
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