UMBC CS 201, Fall 98

UMBC CMSC 201 & 201H Fall '98

Strings

Strings are sequences of characters that are terminated with a the special character, the NULL character, '\0'.

The NULL character, '\0' is ascii 0.

Strings are represented as arrays of characters, where the last character of the string is the NULL character.

This combination declaration and initialization: char str[5] = "cat"; has the following representation.

str

FE09

str
FE09

'c'

'a'

't'

'\0'

Many functions have already been written for manipulating strings and they are found in the ANSI C string library.

To use functions in this library you'll need to #include <string.h>