Strings

What is string?

—Array of  characters.

—‘\0’ in string signifies end of the string in memory.

—Strings is enclosed within double quotes.

Initializing Strings

—2 ways

—char month1[]={‘j’,’a’,’n’,’u’,’a’,’r’,’y’};

—char month1[]=“january”;

Example

Array of strings

#include<stdio.h>

const int Num=5;

const int length=9;

main()

{

int j;

char Names[Num][length]={“Tejaswi”,”Prasad”,

                                ”Prashant”,”Anand”, “Priya”};

for(j=0;j<Num;j++) printf(“%s\n”,Names[j]);

}

—Output:

   TejaswiPrasad

    Prasanth

    Anand

Input/output

—gets(string) performs input operation .

—puts(string)  performs output operation.

Example

#include<string.h>

#include<stdio.h>

main()

{  char numstr[20];

    puts("enter the string");

   gets(numstr);

    puts(numstr);

}   

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