C Language

String

1. Strings are array of characters i.e. they are characters arranged one after another in memory. Thus, a character array is called string.
2. Each character within the string is stored within one element of the array successively.
3. A string is always terminated by a null character (i.e. slash zero 0).

You can see how to

• Compare Two Strings
• Concatenate Strings
• Copy one string to another string.
• String Length & perform Various string manipulation operations.

(You can perform such operations using the pre-defined functions of “string.h” header file. In order to use these string functions you must include string.h file in your C program)

You can use the gets() function to read the line of string and can also use puts() to display the string.

String Declaration

• char a[0] = {'S', 'K', 'I', 'L', 'L', 'P', 'U', 'N', 'D', 'I', 'T', '\0'};
• char a[0] = "Skillpundit";

Actually, you do not place the null character at the end of a string constant. The C compiler automatically places the '\0' at the end of the string. when it initializes the array. Let us try to print above mentioned string:

"C String tutorial"