another array question

hey guys just wondering if when you put a word in a character array is this still classed as dealing with a character string?

for example

if i had a char array which was char example [100];
and it contained "hello" would hello be classed as a string even though its in a char array?

thanks.

string comprised \0.

Kuphryn

huh?

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To 1821. Please post your array or not related questions in the appropriate forum!
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Originally Posted by 1821

if i had a char array which was char example [100];
and it contained "hello" would hello be classed as a string even though its in a char array?

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In C, the notion of string is not directly supported by the compiler...
A C-style string is only a pointer to a char, such as this char is immediately followed by another char, which itself is followed by another char, up to a '\0' char.
So, we can say that a pointer to the first char of a char[100] array, which contains various characters and a nul terminator, is a string.

But, in reality, where chars of a string are stored doesn't matter for all string-manipulating functions.