Strings in C

String:

• String is a one dimensional character array.
• String is a collection symbols(alphabets, digits and special symbols).
• Strings must be represented with double quotes.

Syntax :

            char  identity[size] ;

Example:

            char  name[20];

• Character occupies 1 byte memory
• String variable holds base address of block
• We can store only ‘n-1’ characters into an array of size ‘n’.
• Last character of every string is ‘\0’
• ASCII value of ‘\0’ character is 0.