declaration and initialization of strings[BCA-II]

 Declaration and Initialization of strings

Declaring an array of strings this way is rather tedious, that’s why C provides an alternative syntax to achieve the same thing. This above initialization is equivalent to:

har ch_arr[3][10] = {

                         "spike",

                         "tom",

                         "jerry"

                     };

The first subscript of the array i.e 3 denotes the number of strings in the array and the second subscript denotes the maximum length of the string. Recall the that in C, each character occupies 1 byte of data, so when the compiler sees the above statement it allocates 30 bytes (3*10) of memory.

the initialization of a string variable,

Char first_name[15]="ARYAN";
Char first_name[15]={'A','R','Y','A','N','\0'};//null character '\0' is required at end in declaration
char string1[6]="hello"; /* string size ='h'+'e'+'l'+'l'+'o'+'\0'=6*/*